got a scare from bob beaupre. one of the things that bob beaupre campaigned on against john hickenlooper was, that he, bob beaupre, was opposed to the iud. he said he didn't believe in that kind of contraception. he said taxpayers shouldn't be funding that sort of thing in colorado. and that was a significant part of the ground on which that gubernatorial election was contested in 2014. but even though bob beaupre did not win the governorship, enough republicans did win in colorado that year, and the colorado senate specifically that bob beaupre ended up getting his way on the iud anyway. it became a republican priority to kill that birth control program that had been so successful, national award-winning, national premier program in terms of public health. and it became their priority to kill it. both the house and the senate needed to overtly vote to continue the funding for that program, and the republicans in control in the senate, zeroed out the funding for it. so it's dead. people thought really hard in colo