Colorado birth control scheme causes drop in teen pregnancy (BBC)

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By Aleem Maqbool
BBC News, Colorado

A Colorado programme that offers free birth control to teenagers has dramatically reduced the rate of teenage pregnancy. But the nature of the scheme's funding - a large anonymous donation - leaves it unclear whether it could work on a broader scale.

Dianzu Mosqueda Salinas is a young woman working at a family planning centre in the Colorado town of Boulder.
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"A 20-minute conversation turned into me having an insertion that day."

Salinas neither had to tell her parents nor had to find the money for the birth control device, all because of a programme started five years ago.

In 2008, an anonymous donor made a $23m (£13.7m), five-year commitment to provide long-term contraception such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) or implants for teenagers who needed them, for free or at very low cost.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28693239




Oh, look -- a way to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and thus prevent abortions ! I can't imagine anything the "pro-life" activists should be supporting more enthusiastically ! Maybe they'll start a crowdsourcing page for this program !

[Grey]

1. Good news.

This works......

[alp227]

2. What's up with all the filler white space at the end?

And I heard this live on BBCWS. Of course they had the obligatory soundbite from an evangelical activist against this program. I wonder why "pro lifers" are so afraid of family planning and the idea that children should have loving parents. Is it that they care more about the process than the outcome or something?

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Blame the cat (for real). nt

[LeftyMom]

3. CA has a similar, but publically funded program.

One page form, no further documentation required, and you fill it out in the Dr's office waiting room. Free reproductive health care for anybody below 200% of the poverty line.

http://www.familypact.org

[SunSeeker]

4. Thanks for the post.

It's good you put that website out there. I was not aware of it. I wish I had something like that available when I was a teenager.

[progressoid]

5. ...well let me put it like this...

[Generic Other]

7. And it takes a foreign news service to inform us

of a fix for a problem that is so simple it staggers the mind that no one thought of it before! Let sexually active teens decide what is the responsible choice to make for themselves and amazingly they seem able to figure out what that is!