Colorado lawmakers wearing IUD jewelry to promote bill

Some Colorado state lawmakers are wearing tiny resin replicas of IUDs to promote a bill to provide such reversible contraception to women at little or no cost.

Women are sporting colorful and glittery IUD earrings and men wear them as lapel pins to try to educate lawmakers about intrauterine devices, credited for reducing the state’s teen pregnancy rate.

Colorado’s chief medical officer, Larry Wolk, told The Denver Post that the jewelry – purchased from an Ohio ob-gyn -helps start conversations about the bipartisan bill.

It is facing opposition from some abortion opponents because IUDs can sometimes prevent implantation of a fertilized egg.

State Rep. Don Coram of Montrose opposes abortion but said he co-sponsored the bill after seeing the emotional and financial toll of teen pregnancy.