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Noticed Your Birth Control Costing More? Tell Congress
MONDAY NOVEMBER 19 2007 4:00 PM
Submitted by Bitch_PhD. Edited By Bitch_PhD.
TAGS: birth control, reproductive rights, congress, politics
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.
this fall, college women returned to campus to discover that the birth control that previously cost them $5–10 for a monthly supply now cost $40–50 per pack, making it far more difficult to afford. 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 and passing on the low price to college women and low-income women. The result has been an increase in the average price of birth control on college campuses, often to 10 times the previous cost.
Rep. Crowley’s legislation, The Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, would bring down the soaring cost of birth control at college health clinics and safety-net providers and increase access to affordable birth control. This legislation will not cost the taxpayers a single dime, and would restore the voluntary benefit to college health clinics and safety-net providers. (My emphasis.)
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.
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