DENVER (AP) — Colorado's looming budget cuts threaten more than schools and state jobs — they also could put lives at stake.
Largressa Munnerlyn wants lawmakers to know that. She survived breast cancer, thanks to a state screening program now under threat from budget cuts.
"I'm living proof that we need this program," Munnerlyn said of Colorado's Women's Wellness Connection, which estimates it will cut breast and cervical cancer screenings for 5,100 women next year under a 41 percent budget cut pending in the state Senate. The program provided 9,152 screenings in the last year, down from 16,809 in the 2009-10 fiscal year.
Munnerlyn lost her job, and her health insurance, when the recession cranked up in 2009. She learned she had breast cancer after a cancer screening at a state "mammovan" at a neighborhood health clinic.
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