--- title: Colorado Lawmakers are Wearing IUD Earrings description: To support bipartisan state legislation to fund long-lasting contraception canonical: https://time.com/3750918/birth-control-iud-colorado-don-coram/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-19T16:22:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:51.473Z og:title: Colorado Lawmakers are Wearing IUD Earrings og:description: To support bipartisan state legislation to fund long-lasting contraception og:url: https://time.com/3750918/birth-control-iud-colorado-don-coram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Colorado Lawmakers are Wearing IUD Earrings twitter:description: To support bipartisan state legislation to fund long-lasting contraception twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Why Colorado Lawmakers Are Wearing IUD Earrings > Sponsored content. 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Men are wearing them too– as pins clipped to their lapels, the Denver Post [reports.](http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci%5F27702542/iud-jewelry-emerges-at-colorado-capitol-demystify-educate) **MORE:** [**The Best Form of Birth Control is the One No One is Using**](http://time.com/the-best-form-of-birth-control-is-the-one-no-one-is-using/) Republican state Rep. Don Coram co-sponsored the bill with Democratic Rep. KC Becker–he agreed to push for the IUD bill, even though he opposes abortion. Coram wears an IUD pin next to his American Flag pin on his lapel. “A redneck Republican wearing an IUD — it just doesn’t make sense does it?” he told the [Post. ](http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci%5F27702542/iud-jewelry-emerges-at-colorado-capitol-demystify-educate)He notes that every dollar put into the program could save almost $6 in Medicaid costs over a three-year period. The IUD earrings, which sell for [$20 on Etsy,](https://www.etsy.com/shop/sharlencreations) are made by Ohio OB-GYN Virginia Smith who also makes jewelry. \[[Denver Post](http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci%5F27702542/iud-jewelry-emerges-at-colorado-capitol-demystify-educate)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3750918/birth-control-iud-colorado-don-coram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3750918/birth-control-iud-colorado-don-coram/"},"headline":"Here's Why Colorado Lawmakers Are Wearing IUD Earrings","datePublished":"2015-03-19T16:22:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:51.473Z","description":"To support bipartisan state legislation to fund long-lasting contraception","url":"https://time.com/3750918/birth-control-iud-colorado-don-coram/","keywords":["Living","Colorado","politics","contraception","IUD"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3750918/birth-control-iud-colorado-don-coram/","name":"Here's Why Colorado Lawmakers Are Wearing IUD Earrings"}}]}] ```