Four months before Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert would cite high contraception costs as the reason for having her third child, Kaydon Boebert, the politician introduced her first bill that sought to defund Planned Parenthood centers across the country. Per Planned Parenthood's website, these centers not only provide affordable contraception but also sexual health screenings, pregnancy testing and planning assistance, and mental health services, in addition to its highly divisive abortion services. 

Boebert's decision to defund Planned Parenthood rested on the last of these listed services. "The nation's largest abortion provider has no business receiving taxpayer dollars," Boebert said, explaining that she intended to divert hundreds of millions of funds to community health centers instead, per Colorado Newsline. The Affordable Care Act guarantees free to low-cost contraception for insured Colorado residents and any applicable dependents, according to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies. 

However, this isn't always a viable option for menstruating individuals across the U.S. Those whose reproductive health care is dependent on Planned Parenthood facilities would face greater challenges if Boebert's fight to defund PP proved successful. New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pointed this out in a May 2023 tweet in which she shared a clip of Boebert's pregnancy story with the caption, "And then she voted against the right to contraception so she could double this problem and give it to the next person."