John Hickenlooper released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can deny their workers insurance coverage for contraception:
“Health insurance should cover contraception, and your boss or your school shouldn’t be able to make that personal decision for you — it’s that simple. In Colorado, we expanded access to birth control and protected reproductive rights. Washington could learn a thing or two from what we accomplished here, and in the U.S. Senate I’ll fight to make sure employers — and politicians — can’t intervene in personal health decisions like using contraception.”
As Colorado’s Governor, Hickenlooper expanded access to birth control, making long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) available at no cost and lowering the state’s unintended pregnancy rate by 54%. Meanwhile Senator Cory Gardner has sponsored legislation to let employers deny their workers coverage for birth control and has repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s provision guaranteeing insurance coverage for contraception, to defund Planned Parenthood, to ban abortion, and even to throw doctors in jail.
