(Stupid…facts and stuff!!! — Promoted by Colorado Pols)
Last week, the Colorado Department of Health and Ennvironment (CDPHE) blasted a news release to reporters crediting a pregnancy-prevention program for reducing teen abortion and pregnancy rates by 50 percent in Colorado, an increase of over 10 points from a year ago.
The program provides free or reduced-cost intrauterine devices (IUDs) and other long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) to teenagers and low-income women.
But as I reported for RH Reality Check today, Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt says the program, called the Colorado Family Planning Initiative, is “killing children” and health officials are “science deniers.”
“Although CDPHE’s science-deniers try to spin this increase in early-term abortions as a decline in late-term surgical abortions, they are killing children nonetheless, just sooner, and with your money,” Klingenschmitt said in an email, echoing the belief of other Colorado Republicans.
“Setting aside the injustice of making all Colorado taxpayers fund these so-called ‘free’ contraceptives for teens with or without their parents’ authorization, the LARC program is clearly a taxpayer-funded abortifacient, which violates our state Constitution’s prohibition on direct or indirect taxpayer funding of abortions,” wrote Klingenschmitt, pointing to a footnote in an Obama Administration legal brief stating that LARC implants may prevent fertilized eggs from attaching to the uterine wall. “These unethical methods increase abortions substantially, by preventing conceived and living embryo babies (with unique human DNA) from implanting in their mother’s uterus, often without telling the mother she is doing so.”
From RH Reality Check:
Reflecting mainstream scientific thinking on the subject, Larry Wolk, Colorado’s chief medical officer, has pointed out that it’s “not medically correct” to say that LARC implants cause abortions.
Under the widely accepted scientific definition, pregnancy occurs after a zygote (fertilized egg) implants in the uterine wall, and because these methods of contraception work prior to implantation, they do not cause abortions….
“This initiative continues to prove its effectiveness,” Wolk said in a news release with the latest statistics about the Colorado Family Planning Initiative, referring to data showing adouble-digit decrease in the teen pregnancy and abortion rate over last year’s composite data. “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.”
Colorado Republican lawmakers, during the 2015 legislative session, blocked funding for CDPHE’s Family Planning Initiative, which was grant-funded from 2009 to June of this year. Wolk subsequently procured more private funding to run a scaled-back program for another year.
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Klingenschmitt is merely reflecting the line of many religious right organizations that contraception is immoral because it prevents human beings from coming into existence. Of course, it's only contraception for women; women of child bearing age being 2nd or even 3rd class citizens to these groups; that is an issue.
I would like to know how Rep. Klingenschmitt feels about condom machines at truck stops. C.H.B.
Doesn't not having sex also prevent children from coming into the world? I'm guessing they don't advocate forcing peope to have sex.
We would like someone to ask this question at tomorrow's GOP Presidential debate: "How do you feel about condom machines at truck stops?"
Huckabee: Love em! Use 'em all the time!
Truck stops?
No, the condom machines …
… aka hillbilly slot machines.
One can never be too careful…
On a good day, this is what the fastest sperm spawns (you're welcome, BlueCat)
D'oh. Not again with the unseeable pic!
Worse, it's the cannot-be-unseen pic!
I can't tell if he's scratching or just comparing the two.
What I really meant!
By Klingenschmitt's definition, virginity = contraception = abortion.
So much for ignorance (abstinence) only sex education. Ladies, keep one in the oven. According to Dr. Assless Chaps, every menstrual period is evidence of murder.
It's never been about abortion, it's always been about controlling a woman's sexuality.
I'm guessing they oppose condoms for the prevention of pregnancy since everyone knows that pregnancy is the devine-ordained penalty for women who cannot control themselves.
However, they support the availability of condoms for widestance conservative, family values Republican politicians who want to engage in anonymous sex with other men to prevent contracting HIV and other STDs.
Clear enough?
Klingenschmitt wants the Christian evangelical movement to get all the credit for reducing the number of abortions. Better access to contraception, better education for women, has nothing to do with it, in his world view. Just the preaching. That's the ticket.