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Hickenlooper opposes Trump Title X plan aimed at abortion funding
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is urging the Trump administration to scrap its rules aimed at putting more distance between federal dollars and abortions. In May the Trump administration unveiled regulations on health care providers in the federal Title X Family Planning Program. Hickenlooper joins a list of Democratic governors resisting the proposal, characterizing it as…
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State program drives down unwanted pregnancy rates in Colorado
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Colorado’s teen pregnancy, birth and abortion rates continue to plummet under a Colorado state health department family planning program that has averted nearly $70 million in state and federal spending, according to the state health department. Colorado’s Title X Family Planning Program has provided a range of family planning services for more than 40 years.…
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U.S. Senate vote to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood is moot in Colorado
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Some perspective is in order – and usually overdue – when hot-button issues are debated in Congress and aired in the press. Planned Parenthood, for example. And Denverite’s Erica Meltzer offers a timely dose of perspective in the wake of last week’s U.S. Senate vote to let states withhold federal Title X funding from family-planning clinics that perform abortions. The…
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DeGette praises new regulation protecting abortion doctor funds
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Colorado 1st Congressional District U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, stepped back into the abortion debate last week with her praise for a new Obama administration regulation that forbids states from withholding federal family planning services from low-income persons. DeGette said the regulation ensures “vital” health care for low-income women. DeGette is co-chair of the Congressional…
