NEWS: Noticed Your Birth Control Costing More? Tell Congress

CULTURE: Noticed Your Birth Control Costing More? Tell Congress

Remember this piece about birth control costs for college students going up because the Bush administration cut the funding that helps subsidize it?

Well, college students around the country, with the help of NARAL, organized petition drives on campus, and as a result of their work, there's a bill wending its way through Congress now--HR 4054, the Prevention Through Affordable Access Act--that does just what its title suggests: restores college and university access to low-cost birth control.

Should be a no-brainer, but you can't count on that in a world where plenty of legislators think Plan B causes abortion (it doesn't) or that it's a-okay for pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions to women.

So take half a minute to click through and send a letter to your representative urging them to support HR 4054.

Bitch_PhD can't wait for a decent national health program that'll cover birth control for everyone.

hey! i just sent an e-mail to my rep. and then came on here and saw this. crazy stuff.

Shit I f you ask me everything going up not just BC .. I just spent 9 bucks on roast beef...thats FUcked up...

I really hope this goes through. Once again, another great article.

Yes... the two are really comparable. Dumbass.

" Due to a provision included in the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA), as of January 1, 2007, every college and university health center and hundreds of safety-net providers were unintentionally cut off from accessing low-cost birth control "


I highly doubt this was unintentional

I'll do what I can, but Marilyn Musgrave is a stone cold bitch.

Thank god for Drug Reps and Sample Packs, it really pays to work in the healthcare industry!

It shouldn't be the government's responsibility to buy people birth control. Government subsidization only helps to elevate the already high prices for everyone.

Well heck, let's just get this all over with shall we?

Did I miss any of the stupid shit that's going to come up?

How is it stupid that I don't want to pay for other people's shit?

You probably didn't notice but I live in Canada. Right now other people are paying for my shit because my income is so low. Next year (thanks to a new job) my health care won't be subsidized and I'll be paying to subsidize someone else's. Know what, I'm just fucking peachy with it. The system isn't perfect but it's better than a country full of selfish assholes and people not getting the care they need.

Because unwanted children a fuck ton more expensive than birth control subsidies? That being the most obvious answer that even a sign language gorilla could figure out.

Yes, because cutting prices makes them go up, duh. I guess this is what happens when you take Freakanomics seriously.

Unless you mean the extra, like five cents you'd pay on your tax bill. In which case, POOR YOU.

how about:

or

?

Ooh... thanks. I knew I was forgetting something.

But it's his five cents, goddamnit!

He should be able to use it how he pleases! By getting four M&Ms from those machines at the mall and then fucking himself with his ego!

We shouldn't be paying for unwanted children either. Charities, welfare, etc. etc. Most people in those situations choose to be in them. Barring extenuating circumstances, the government should not be bailing them out. People need to take responsibility for their own actions.

That'd work great, if everyone were like you. But unfortunately there are too many people out there that take advantage of the system and just mooch off of the rest of society.

Yeah... I just don't buy that.