January 13, 2017 01:24 PM UTC

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Launches thepriceiswrong.org Opposing Trump's HHS nominee

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NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Launches New Grassroots Effort Opposing Trump HHS Nominee Tom Price:

“thepriceiswrong.org”

Denver – NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, the political voice of the pro-choice movement, is launching a new grassroots effort to let legislators, the media, and Colorado’s pro-choice majority know that when it comes to women’s health, The Price Is Wrong. Trump has nominated anti-choice, anti-abortion rights Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga) to a Cabinet post to be Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services.

thepriceiswrong.org website will be collecting women’s stories and sending their objections to Price’s nomination to Colorado’s U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R) and Michael Bennet (D).

“Frankly, Tom Price’s views are so backwards we wonder what century he thinks he’s living in – because it sure doesn’t bear any relation to the needs of women in this state and this country in 2016,” said NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Executive Director Karen Middleton. “He’s supported Personhood bills giving full legal rights to fertilized eggs – the same Personhood language Colorado voters have repeatedly rejected at the ballot box. And he’s been a vocal opponent of birth control access, including the types of birth control that cut the unintended pregnancy rate here in Colorado.

But here’s the jaw-dropper: Tom Price has said he’s never met a woman who can’t afford birth control. This will come as news to women who have struggled to pay for a $1600 IUD or a year’s worth of birth control.

We think Tom Price should hear from Colorado women about what their birth control costs and why he’s clueless. And we want Senators Bennet and Gardner to hear why a Cabinet nominee who is on the opposite side of Colorado voters and values has no business being confirmed.”

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The NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation (NPCCF) is a statewide 501c3 organization that is dedicated to supporting and protecting every woman’s right to make informed personal decisions about the full range of reproductive health options. The NPCCF carries out education, advocacy, community organizing, and research so that the public is aware of important reproductive health issues and resources.

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado (NPCC) is the political leader of the pro-choice movement in Colorado.  NPCC is a 501c4 organization and has more than 40,000 supporters statewide and works to develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive health choices, including preventing unintended pregnancies, bearing healthy children and choosing legal abortion.