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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. that's 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 i'm 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 health campaign in colorado that year to try to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in that s...
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 don't recognize in many ways by eliminating women's access to reproductive health, they're actually going to increase the number of abortions. it's unconscionable. >> do you feel like -- part of the reason this was interesting to me at the time we initially covered it is because when you were running for reelection as governor of...
Hickenlooper left the governorship in january. now he is running for president. and of course it's not the centerpiece of his campaign, but it's 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 says, quote, in light of the systemic attack on women's reproductive rights in states across the cou...
Subsidize the cost of long-acting reversible contraception for women who can't 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 is something we covered on the show years ago when you were in the midst of this, in the midst of...