Colorado has carried out one of the biggest real-life experiments with birth control measures. State officials said what if teenagers and poor women were provided with free intrauterine devices and implants for preventing pregnancies for years and will they choose them. The respond was staggering, as a significant decline has come in the teen pregnancies and abortion rates.

As per a data, the birthrate among Colorado teenagers has declined 40% from 2009 to 2013 and the abortion rate has declined 42%. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said that a decline has also been seen in births by unmarried women aged less than 25 years of age.

The change was especially seen in the poorest areas of Colorado like Walsenburg, a small city in southern Colorado. Experts have affirmed that more number of young women have been making choice of taking up birth control measures.

“If we want to reduce poverty, one of the simplest, fastest and cheapest things we could do would be to make sure that as few people as possible become parents before they actually want to”, said Isabel Sawhill, an economist at the Brookings Institution.

Teenage births have been declining on national levels. But experts have affirmed that the timing and the rate at which reductions are taking place in Colorado indicate that the state’s program was the main reason.

Advocates for women’s health issues have affirmed that long-acting birth control has given power in the hand of American women over when and with whom they have children.