{"id":50229,"date":"2015-04-30T16:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/i-for-one-would-have-welcomed-this-imposition.html"},"modified":"2015-05-04T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:50:08","slug":"i-for-one-would-have-welcomed-this-imposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/i-for-one-would-have-welcomed-this-imposition.html","title":{"rendered":"I, for one, would have welcomed this &quot;imposition&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to expand a contraceptive program that has won Colorado awards for significantly reducing teen pregnancy rates died in the GOP-led State Senate today, even after one GOP member congratulated the program on winning the award. The program funds long-term contraception, like IUDs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the savings in Medicaid costs from reduced birth rats, significant reduction in abortions projected by the program, the bill was killed because  &#8230; well &#8230; some religious people got twitchy about it.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;&ldquo;Coloradans oppose the imposition of these kinds of mandates on us as individuals. There are religious reasons,&rdquo; said Michael Norton, an attorney representing Colorado Family Action, who once served as the U.S. attorney for Colorado. &ldquo;These contraceptives are abortifacients, that is they cause the demise of an implanted or fertilized human embryo.&rdquo;&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/article\/20150429\/NEWS01\/150429564\/0\/FRONTPAGE\/Contraceptive-funding-dies-in-Senate'><br \/>\n<img src='' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/article\/20150429\/NEWS01\/150429564\/0\/FRONTPAGE\/Contraceptive-funding-dies-in-Senate'>Contraceptive funding dies in Senate<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/9tL7v2HcuKZ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to expand a contraceptive program that has won Colorado awards for significantly reducing teen pregnancy rates died in the GOP-led State Senate today, even after one GOP member congratulated the program on winning the award. The program funds long-term contraception, like IUDs. Despite the savings in Medicaid costs from reduced birth rats, significant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/i-for-one-would-have-welcomed-this-imposition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I, for one, would have welcomed this &quot;imposition&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,134,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-health-care","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20965,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/06\/unblogged-bits-fri-6-may-11-2330.html","url_meta":{"origin":50229,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Fri.  6-May-11 2330)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-May-11 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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