[The Final Dakar]

I feel like I posted about this when it first happened, but if I did, it is lost to the MacNN sands of time.
Colorado GOP blocks successful birth-control program | MSNBC

Colorado launched a health initiative a few years ago with a specific target: reducing teen-birth rates. To that end, Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) implemented a program that provided tens of thousands of contraceptive devices at low or no cost.

The results were amazing: teen-birth rates dropped 40% in just five years. This week, the state even won an award from the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, celebrating Colorado’s success story.

“Opponents of the bill worried that increasing access to birth control would not have a net public health gain because it would increase promiscuity.” One GOP lawmaker accused the policy of “subsidizing sex.” Another said of the program, “Does that allow a lot of young women to go out there and look for love in all the wrong places?”

In other words, Republican critics of the idea raised concerns that the policy might fail – which might be a credible point were it not for the fact that the policy has been in place for five years, offering real-world proof that those concerns are unfounded.

How Colorado’s teen birthrate dropped 40% in four years - The Washington Post

With fewer unplanned pregnancies, the teen abortion rate fell by 35 percent between 2009 and 2012 in those counties where the initiative is in place.

The state also spent less on food programs for low-income mothers and children; infant enrollment in WIC supplemental nutrition program declined 23 percent between 2008 and 2013.

The governor’s office said the state saved $42.5 million in health-care expenditures associated with teen births.

For every dollar spent on the contraceptives, the state saved $5.68 in Medicaid costs, according to the Denver Post.

Less teen pregnancies means less unwed mothers and single-parent children. If you're a pro-family conservative, you want this, right?

Less births means less medical costs to the state. Less unprepared women on low-income programs means less of the state's budget being spent on said programs. If you're a financial conservative this is what you want, right?

There were far less abortions. If you're pro-life this is ****ing super, right?

So why can't this program get enough support?!

[OAW]

Perhaps conservatives care more about having an issue to rail against than actually solving it?

OAW

[subego]

[BadKosh]

Perhaps the "Solutions" served up by liberals causes more damage than they help. Since when does killing babies sound like a 'good' idea? I guess not shaming a tramp, or stud who is being irresponsible was the bad idea.

[OAW]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Perhaps the "Solutions" served up by liberals causes more damage than they help. Since when does killing babies sound like a 'good' idea? I guess not shaming a tramp, or stud who is being irresponsible was the bad idea.

Did you even bother to read the OP?

OAW

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by subego 

Well, I completely read that in his voice and inflection.

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Since when does killing babies sound like a 'good' idea?

Who is killing babies?

[subego]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Perhaps the "Solutions" served up by liberals causes more damage than they help. Since when does killing babies sound like a 'good' idea? I guess not shaming a tramp, or stud who is being irresponsible was the bad idea.

Stud shaming needs to be a thing.

[Atheist]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

Who is killing babies?

I guess the prevention of a potential fetus is the same thing as abortion for some.

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by Atheist 

I guess the prevention of a potential fetus is the same thing as abortion for some.

That's actually true, but I'm not sure he's one of those people.

[OAW]

The other side of the coin ....

Chlamydia Outbreak Hits Texas High School With No Sex Ed - ABC News

OAW

[The Final Dakar]

According to the handbook, state law requires more attention must be spent on abstinence than other behavior.

How's that working out for you?

It's a good post, OAW because that ties in to the OP in that we have decades of stats saying sex education is better than abstinence only education at preventing teen pregnancy and STDs.

[Cap'n Tightpants]

Originally Posted by subego 

Stud shaming needs to be a thing.

it really does.

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by subego 

Stud shaming needs to be a thing.

Shame on you!

Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants 

it really does.

Shame on you too!

[reader50]

And here I was thinking of 2x4 studs. Did you know they aren't actually 2-inch by 4-inch? It should be shamed.

[Chongo]

Originally Posted by reader50 

And here I was thinking of 2x4 studs. Did you know they aren't actually 2-inch by 4-inch? It should be shamed.

There are if they are "uncircumcised"