Colorado GOP Legislators Think IUDs Create Abortions
Becker said she has a Republican co-sponsor, though he hasn’t publicly supported the bill yet. Becker’s prefile efforts include correcting misconceptions that IUDs induce abortions.
Several prominent Republicans, including GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez and state Sen. Kevin Lundberg, chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, have characterized IUDs as abortifacients, or substances that induce abortion — a statement health care experts say is inaccurate.
Lundberg, R-Berthoud, called CDPHE arguments “poor science.” He described the IUDs as potentially “stopping a small child from implanting,” referring to the fertilized egg. The definition of pregnancy used by CDPHE and other scientists has pregnancy beginning at the implantation of the fertilized egg.