Star Watch Investigation: Did Indiana miss a $7M opportunity?

Six years ago, Indiana passed a law to provide free birth control to low-income mothers who had recently given birth. The idea had much going for it. Health-care professionals said it would lead to healthier babies. Legislative analysts said it would save the state and taxpayers close to $7 million over five years. It undoubtedly would have led to fewer unwanted pregnancies, fewer children born into families not financially able to take care of them and fewer abortions. And if all that weren't enough, the plan had already been tried -- successfully -- in about 20 other states. The legislature in 2005 voted nearly unanimously to approve the law, which was expected to serve more than 27,000 women per month by the fifth year. But six years later, not a single person has benefited. And none of those millions of dollars has been saved.