The earrings and lapel pins , which cost $ 20 , are sold on Etsy and made by Dr Virginia Smith , an Ohio-based OB-GYN . They have been adopted and worn by lobbyists who support a program called the Colorado Family Planning Initiative . This state program supplies intrauterine devices , a safe and long-term form of birth control , to low-income women . In addition to providing free IUDs for poor women, this program also provides funding for family planning clinics that provide services like contraception counseling, STI testing, STD prevention, and other reproductive health
The earrings and lapel pins , which cost $ 20 , are sold on Etsy and made by Dr Virginia Smith , an Ohio-based OB-GYN . They have been adopted and worn by lobbyists who support a program called the Colorado Family Planning Initiative . This state program supplies intrauterine devices , a safe and long-term form of birth control , to low-income women . It now requires $ 5million in public funding , and has already been credited with reducing teen births in Colorado by 40 % in five years .