Teen Births In Colorado Dip 48 Percent Thanks To LARCs (haters want it gone!)

[niyad]

Teen Births In Colorado Dip 48 Percent Thanks To LARCs


Just five years since Colorado introduced an innovative family planning initiative providing little to no-cost long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) to low-income women in 68 clinics, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced a 48 percent decline in teen births and abortions statewide, effectively linking access to affordable reproductive care to low rates of unintended pregnancy.




Since 2009, the Colorado Family Planning Initiative, a five-year pilot program funded privately with a $25 million grant from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, has provided more than 30,000 intrauterine devices (IUDs) and other LARC methods including hormonal implants to low-income and uninsured women across the state. According to data compiled by the Colorado Department of Public Health, both births and abortions among women aged 15-19 have been cut in half, decreasing by as much as 48 percent between 2009 and 2014.

Women ages 20-24 are seeing drops, too. In the last five years, the birth and abortion rates within their age group dropped by 20 percent and 18 percent respectively. Moreover, the program has saved Medicaid approximately $79 million in birth-related costs between 2010 and 2012, meaning for every dollar spent, the initiative has returned $5.85 back into the social safety net.

Unfortunately, some remain unconvinced of the initiative’s clear benefits. (one has to wonder what passes for thinking in their widdle woman-hating, gestational slaver heads!!!) In May, the Colorado Senate voted down a bill appropriating $5 million for the program, funding that would have sustained the program beyond the previous grant’s July expiration date. Several organizations have since pledged roughly $2 million to fund the program until June next year.

But according to Colorado’s chief medical officer and health department executive director Dr. Larry Wolk, the program’s effectiveness is undeniable. Given three-fourths of Colorado’s teen pregnancies are unintended, the need for increased access to affordable contraception could not be more critical. “This initiative continues to prove its effectiveness,” said Wolk. “Thousands of low-income Colorado women now are able to pursue their dreams of higher education and a good career and choose when and whether to start a family.”

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/11/02/teen-births-in-colorado-dip-48-percent-thanks-to-larcs/

[Kath1]

1. Amazing!

They hate abortion AND they hate every contraceptive measure and program which decreases the need for abortion.

We can't win with these patriarchal woman-haters!

[niyad]

2. they are consistent--they hate women, they hate their autonomy, they hate their

reproductive systems, and women MUST be under control after all, it is not like they are actual human beings or anything.

[Kath1]

4. That sums it up, niyad!

[niyad]

5. one would think that that definition would be simple, and obvious.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

[Kath1]

7. Beautiful quote.

So true.

[niyad]

3. "Days of the Theocracy"--kristin lems

Kristin LemsDays of the Theocracy
2007-07-15
words/ music Kristin Lems c 2007 Kleine Ding Music (BMI)


Words and music by Kristin Lems

© 1979, 2005, 2015 Kleine Ding Music (BMI)

First they fight abortion, birth control is next,

Then comes sex if you’re not married, finally, out goes sex!

Put the prayers back in the schools, install "parochiaid,"

Allow for corporal punishment, and then you got it made!

Chorus: We’re going back, back to the good ole days

When men were really men and women knew their place

Back, back a couple of centuries

And welcome back the days of the theocracy!

2. The family is so holy, there must be no divorce

And if a wife is not content, she must adjust, of course

And if he’s forced to beat her, it’s all for her own good

She must know what her limits are, as any woman should.,

(chorus)

3. The next to go is daycare,

it’s all a commie plot!

What could be more fulfilling than a child, wanted or not?

A woman’s world is housework, God wanted it that way

A salaried job degrades her since she never works for pay

(chorus)

4. They teach us women’s lot is "love honor and obey"

And while their crusty notions seem like jokes to us today,

They’re sitting in the Capitol, they’re voting on our lives

If we don’t stop them soon, our freedom will not long survive!

Alt chorus:

No going back, back to the bad ole days...

When men were really masters and women were their slaves

let's go ahead, ahead for future centuries,

And build a world that’s based on true democracy

And build a world that’s based on true equality!

Ah – person!
- See more at: http://www.kristinlems.com/equality_road___double_cd/s/days_of_the_theocracy#sthash.ic1WtU6H.dpuf

[Kath1]

6. Those are beautiful lyrics, and SO TRUE!

I checked out the link. I will be listening to her.

Feminist music really inspires me!

Than you for turning me on to her!

[niyad]

8. happy to be of help in that regard.

are you familiar with ladyslipper music catalogue?

https://www.ladyslipper.org/

[Kath1]

9. I am now!

Wow! Thank you! I will be expanding my musical horizons.

I love Ani DiFranco, The Indigo Girls and many others, but there a lot more to discover.

[niyad]

10. you are most welcome. one of the best resources for women's music.

[Kath1]

11. I can tell!

Ani's "Amendment" is a great song. And I always loved Holly Near.

Thanks again!

[niyad]

12. did you ever hear holly and ronnie gilbert (formerly of "weavers", now deceased) together?

or the HARP album--holly, arlo, ronnie, and pete.

[Kath1]

13. Yes!

I have that one! "Singing For Our Lives" is an excellent pro-choice song and I was lucky enough to hear her perform it at the March For Women's Lives!

That entire album is just excellent!

[niyad]

14. here:

[Kath1]

15. Very nice.

Thank you!

[niyad]

16. you are most welcome.