article_snippet: the Colorado Family Planning Initiative has handed out an estimated 30,000 of these contraceptives since the Colorado Family Planning Initiative inception in 2009, and up until now, has been grant-funded.
article_snippet: According to ThinkProgress, the Colorado Family Planning Initiative has contributed to a 40per cent drop in teen births over the past five years.
article_snippet: The new legislation, expected to be introduced on Friday, would allocate $5million of state funds to the cause, allowing IUDs to be fitted for free or at little cost in 68 clinics across Colorado.
article_snippet: Some conservatives and anti-choice lawmakers, however, stand against the Colorado Family Planning Initiative, with some - including Republican Senator Kevin Lundberg - even incorrectly claiming IUDs cause abortions.
highlights_snippet: This state program supplies intrauterine devices, a safe and long-term form of birth control, to low-income women .
  
highlights_snippet: This state program supplies intrauterine devices, a safe and long-term form of birth control, to low-income women .
   
highlights_snippet: now requires $5million in public funding, and has already been credited with reducing teen births in Colorado by 40% in five years .