Sunday, January 3, 2016

Colorado offered free Birth Control and teen abortions went down 40%

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/7/5877505/colorado-contraceptives-teen-pregnancy-birth-control?s_src=NWLC&s_subsrc=fb_20150206_birth-control

Colorado's Department of Public Health and Environment is seeking more funding to continue a privately funded birth control program that has, by several measures, been a startling success.
The program, known as the Colorado Family Planning Initiative, provides intrauterine devices (IUDs) or implants at little to no cost for low-income women at family planning clinics in Colorado. It contributed to a 40 percent drop in Colorado's teen birth rate and a 42 percent drop in the state's teen abortion rate between 2009 and 2013, according to state data reported by the New York Times's Sabrina Taverni


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