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Addressing disparities in maternal mortality  We started this last day of the FIGO 2021 World Congress with a powerful keynote lecture by Dr Nawal Nour on maternal mortality in the US (including disparities) and worldwide.  

Banning abortion in print, and banning abortion in practice, and seeing how far and how fast they can push the supreme court to make it go away nationwide. thats one way. here is an opposite way. if you were driving down the highway in colorado in 2012, you might have seen billboards like these. "i want her to know im ready to be a dad. pregnancy. just talk about it." they had billboards in spanish too. this one says "we are ready for a relationship, not a baby." this is part of a state public h...

Access to iuds and norplants, long acting reversible contraception, as you described it, and reduced teenaged abortion by 64%, abortion by 54% and in the process saved $70 million out of colorado tax money. so the notion that the people that are so opposed to abortion dont recognize in many ways by eliminating womens access to reproductive health, theyre actually going to increase the number of abortions. its unconscionable. >> do you feel like -- part of the reason this was interesting to me at...

Hickenlooper left the governorship in january. now he is running for president. and of course its not the centerpiece of his campaign, but its a memorable and unique part of it that he has earned the right to propose and pursue because he did it already in his state as part of his presidential campaign, governor hickenlooper is now proposing a national version of that public health problem -- public health program, that iud program he helped oversee in colorado. policy paper from his campaign sa...

Subsidize the cost of long-acting reversible contraception for women who cant afford it and dramatically expand access for all american women. joining us women now for the interview is john hickenlooper. he is the former colorado governor. he is a current candidate in the democratic presidential primary. governor, thanks for being here. >> thanks, rachel. a lot of people are talking about the size of the democratic field and what it takes to stand out, what it takes to get donors attention. this...

Practicality. do you think thats fair? and was this harder to get done than it seems from the outside? >> well, i think that its a fundamental inalienable right that women should have control of their own bodies. and i think thats whats going on, this constant assault on womens reproductive rights, you see it in alabama, indiana, even missouri now, so many states that its horrific. and what we did was we went the other direction, right. we went out and expanded womens access to iuds and norplant...

Of unwanted pregnancies in that state, which of course down the line naturally reduces the number of abortions in the state as well. this public policy program -- this public health program in colorado, it was built around a specific technology, long-acting, reversible contraception, specifically, these little guys. this is an iud. its a long-acting reversible contraception. thats a method of preventing pregnancy. its more reliable than the pill. with the iud, you put the device in and you dont ...

Abortion. if you want to reduce abortion, you do what we did here in colorado, which is provide free birth control and good information to women. we actually cut the teen birth and abortion rate in colorado, a pro choice state, by providing reversible contraception. so if her organization is serious about trying to improve womens health care, id suggest she get behind those efforts. >> i think thats not the issue. >> ladies, hold on. this is a critical issue, obviously, you two are never going t...