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Colorado contraception program was a huge success – but the GOP is scrapping it

CFPI helped reduce teen pregnancies and cut abortions but experts say ‘family planning is a political issue, and science and data gets trumped by ideology’Over the past seven years, Colorado has run an experiment to see if it could lower the rate of unintended pregnancies, cut abortions – and save the state government some money, too.The Colorado Family Planning Initiative (CFPI) offered low-income women and teens access to low or no-cost contraceptive devices, including IUDs and implants, and trained providers in insertion and counselling techniques.

 

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