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A recent program in Colorado offering teenagers and poor women free pregnancy prevention devices (IUDs and implants) has reduced abortions by 35% - 42% (depending on how you measure) and unplanned pregnancies by 40%.
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Isn't that what we want?!?! Anti-choice activists want no Abortions and Pro-choice activists often say they want Abortions to be legal, safe and rare. Here is a way to meet both requirements.
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Summary of details here by the NY Times - LINK.
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Of course, the Republican Men of Colorado's legislature has voted down refunding it. Despite the fact it saves money (approximately $80 Million in Medicare / Medicaid savings) AND reduces abortions, the old guys of Colorado say no.
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So, it's not about Abortion, is it? They don't like the idea of women having sex. If they do, they - like the Bible says - they should deliver life in pain. You know, because of Eve.
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So it isn't an issue of wanting to reduce Abortion. It is simply that many anti-abortion activists - and a GREAT majority of legislative activists don't want women to have sex. And, if they do, they want them to "pay the consequences". Which is not "Pro Life", it is a anti-female judgemental moral position by a bunch of Old White Male assholes.