Colorado finds free contriceptives help teen pregancy FOF na

[doggie]

Of course free birth control works bu of course focus on the family says no way it can't work only abstinence only works. of course texas and others have fully proved that wrong but we can't deny our beliefs for facts of course.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_26085 ... nds-out?ok

A state health initiative to reduce teen birth rates by providing more than 30,000 contraceptive devices at low or no cost has led to a 40 percent drop in five years, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday.

The Colorado Family Planning Initiative, funded by a private anonymous donor for five years, has provided intrauterine devices and other implants to low-income women at 68 family-planning clinics across Colorado since 2009.

The clinics are in local health departments, hospitals and private nonprofit facilities. The program also provided training and technical assistance to family planning clinics statewide.

"When families are planned and women have children when they're ready and want them ... it's really a better situation for everyone," Hickenlooper said during his state Capitol news conference.

Seven of every 10 teen pregnancies in Colorado are unintended, officials said.

The decline in births among girls 15 to 19 years old served by the program accounted for three-quarters of the overall decline in the Colorado teen birth rate, the state said in a news release.

That rate has fallen from 37 births per 1,000 girls in 2009 to 22 in 2013, officials said.

The teen abortion rate dropped 35 percent from 2009 to 2012 in those counties where the initiative is in place, Hickenlooper said.

Carrie Gordon Earll, senior director of public policy for the conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family, said she was skeptical of the state's claim that increased access to IUDs and other birth control caused the steep decline in teen birth rates.

"What we have seen over many years is that access to contraception does not equal fewer unintended pregnancies and fewer abortions," Earll said. "Availability of contraception leads to increased sexual activity, which leads to unintended pregnancies and abortions."

Earll said she found it offensive that the state was dispensing IUDs and that teens don't need to be accompanied by an adult to receive these forms of contraceptives.

"It totally undermines parental rights," Earll said.

[docmom]

Very similar to something I read in a BBC article yesterday. When one of the newer oral contraceptives was found to have double the rate of thrombosis episodes compared to the general population people stopped using oral contraceptives. The number of abortions that year was up 13,000 over the norm. If you are anti-abortion you should be the world's biggest contraceptive activist- it really works.

Oh BTW, the article was on misunderstanding statistics. The pill did double the risk of thrombosis but only from 1/7,000 to 2/7,000...

[doggie]

This really shows how it is not about abortion but about beliefs and all that matters is no sex outside marriage

[DGayle]

Seven of every 10 teen pregnancies in Colorado are unintended, officials said.

Scary that 30% of teen pregnancy ARE intended.

[doggie]

feel sorry for this idiots daughter. wonder if he learned anything?

GOP Abstinence Advocate’s Underage Daughter Pregnant

Posted by Viral Global News Reader on July 7, 2014 in Editorial, U.S. | 264 Views | Leave a response

A GOP abstinence advocate has revealed that his underage daughter is pregnant and that the baby is due soon. Bill Cassidy told reporters last week that his daughter, who is 17 years old and not married, will have the full support of himself and his wife. Cassidy had previously sponsored abstinence-only legislation which advocates for more funds to be allocated to schools for the teaching of abstinence programs. While the example of Cassidy’s daughter is just one anecdotal story of how abstinence programs do not work, there is plenty of solid science to back up this fact.

[Hane]

feel sorry for this idiots daughter. wonder if he learned anything?

Some 25 years ago, it was well known in the US that "abstinence-only" sex ed DID NOT WORK. I learned this from a colleague who was the director of our local teen mothers' alternate high school.

[doggie]

Some 25 years ago, it was well known in the US that "abstinence-only" sex ed DID NOT WORK. I learned this from a colleague who was the director of our local teen mothers' alternate high school.

there is a reason where sex is such a problem in the bible it is because people had so much of it outside of marriage even back then.

[Chowder Head]

hormones hormone everywhere and they give some people no room to think . "abstinence-only" sex ed does not work...damn hormones