Sex In The Public Square - birth control prices soar for college students - Comments

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Amelia Earhardt — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:16:02 -0800

still it's a better investment rather than getting pregnant and you have to get through hard labour that's even more expensive - bringing in a new life

Costs of Contraceptives

Garret — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:02:00 -0700

While I highly recommend an IUD for women or couples that wish to prevent an unplanned pregnancy, I think condoms are really a solution that needs more public attention for students. Planned Parenthood offers them free by the handful, they have a high success rate for prevention, and they are the only form of contraceptive that can help prevent STDS.

Give it time

Spaced Out — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:19:35 -0700

Someday we will be so overpopulated they will be giving them out like Smarties at an Easter egg hunt.

high cost of contraceptives

Colina Tallinn — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:21:05 -0700

If men had to take birth control pills to prevent pregnancies, the pills would be free.

The High Price of Campus Birth Control

Carole the Contraceptive Reviewer — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:44:13 -0800

Hopefully the lobbying done by Planned Parenthood and others will see the Deficit Reduction Act (whose initial wording was the main culprit in causing this problem) amended to reverse this current price situation.

Early in November, bills were introduced in both houses of Congress to change the language in the Act to enable college health centers and other health care providers to pass on discounts they receive for the cost of contraceptives to students.

No one seems to know how long this will take to be finalised but the support appears to be strong for the amendment to be passed.

condoms

tracya — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:53:34 -0700

after posting this, i remembered that while birth control/tubal ligations are essential to a young woman's overall health they do not prevent STD's...casual sex still requires a barrier method.

i would never discourage anyone from using long term/permanent forms of birth control, but it can't be forgotten that HIV still exists and while highly treatable, it is not curable. i've read that the scary times of HIV=death have passed and that teens now see it as a chronic illness.

safe sex education is so essential.

Two Faces to One Coin

Chris — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:15:06 -0700

You know, it would be best if I could live my life like Elvis Costello: "I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused." Unfortunately, I just can't pull it off. America's hypocrisy towards sexual health, especially that of women, is legendary, and I shouldn't continue to be appalled, and yet I still am. Another thing you have to remember when reading the above article that kind of brings the entire issue into even clearer focus is that many health insurance companies won't pay for contraception -- but Viagra is definitely on the roster. What's that say about the relative values of the health of the cock and the cunt in the great bureaucracy that is our modern health system?

Alternet also has an interesting article that shows how urgently we value the role of childbearing for women, whether they want to or not: it talks about women who are well into their twenties -- far beyond the age necessary to drink, smoke, join the army, or vote -- are routinely denied tubal ligations simply because the doctors think they're not old enouth.

birth control prices soar for college students

tracya — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:38:27 -0700

it's appalling that the price of birth control impacts a young woman's decision to buy them or not.