Beth Grant-DeRoos  Colorado ran a test program (LARC) to give lower-income women quality birth control products and it cut unwanted pregnancies and abortions by ~50%.  See: <a href="https://cdphe.colorado.gov/fpp/about-us/colorados-success-long-acting-reversible-contraception-larc" target="_blank">https://cdphe.colorado.gov/fpp/about-us/colorados-success-long-acting-reversible-contraception-larc</a> But the state legislature, with a 1-vote GOP majority, killed funding. The $2.5M cost of the LARC program saved $70M in public assistance costs. Solutions are available to abortion, but the GOP wants only total victory, no abortions ever, not even birth control.The war on women goes on in the GOP and religious right.

Beth Grant-DeRoos  Colorado ran a test program (LARC) to give lower-income women quality birth control products and it cut unwanted pregnancies and abortions by ~50%.  See: <a href="https://cdphe.colorado.gov/fpp/about-us/colorados-success-long-acting-reversible-contraception-larc" target="_blank">https://cdphe.colorado.gov/fpp/about-us/colorados-success-long-acting-reversible-contraception-larc</a> But the state legislature, with a 1-vote GOP majority, killed funding. The $2.5M cost of the LARC program saved $70M in public assistance costs. Solutions are available to abortion, but the GOP wants only total victory, no abortions ever, not even birth control.The war on women goes on in the GOP and religious right.

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