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Low-cost birth control sought for campuses

Lost in this entire discussion is why grown adults can't buy their own pills.

And before all the "too poor to buy their own" crowd chimes in, my wife and I were able to afford birth control pills while in college without having to go to the student clinic to get them.

It boils down to priorities, I guess. $300 per year is less than most college students pay for their cell phone service, and waaay less than they pay for cable or satellite TV.

I suppose people not interested in getting pregnant could save the $300/year and just abstain from having Sex. This might even save them the cost of medical treatment for STDs as well.

Maybe the girls should be making the boy friends pay for the birth control tablets. If he cares for her enough and wants her bad enough, 30/35 dollars is not to much. Why put it all on the girl.

At the bottom of this move is the government's worry about the tax base. Women who are busy with child care have lower income, and pay less taxes.
No attention is given to the health consequences of long term use of hormones. But the government isn't interested in female longevity, it's interested in funding for the immediate future.
What a great way to defund these parasites in Washington! Make babies and raise them yourself!
(Just a curiosity for the ladies: Aren't you wondering what ever happened to those birth control pills for men?)