Doctor Liz Romer, director of Children’s Hospital Family Planning Clinic, discusses the new IUD that Nathaly Chavez, 18, has and answers questions for Chavez during a check up at the clinic in Aurora. (Kathryn Scott Osler, Denver Post file)
Re: “Fear and worry in Colorado’s middle class lures politicos,” Feb. 1 news story.
Your Sunday Post article on the bipartisan support for middle-class initiatives in the legislature did not reference Republican opposition to funding for the state’s teenage birth control program. The program was previously funded by private funds for five years and reduced the rate of teenage pregnancy by 50 percent. This program funds IUDs, which the Republicans claim are methods of abortion. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists does not agree with this perspective, and finds IUDs one of the most effective methods of birth control.
So how does this play into funding the middle-class initiatives? One of the things that keeps women from moving into the middle class or causes them to fall out of the middle class is unwanted pregnancy. Not funding this initiative is shortsighted in terms of future costs to the tax system as well.
We need to be supporting proven programs to help our population to get on its economic feet, not throwing them back to the Dark Ages.
Robin Hurley,Highlands Ranch
This letter was published in the Feb. 8 edition.
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