Take a moment to demand cheap birth control...

For Nikki Bruce, a senior at Tufts, a NuvaRing once cost $8--now she pays up to $50.

For college students around the country, birth control is an expensive necessity. This fall, the average cost of a number of contraceptive methods skyrocketed for women in college and for poor women who use community clinics. This was mainly due to a provision in a federal law that ended the practice of drug companies supplying birth control to health centers at rock-bottom prices. Many colleges knew of the change in advance and stockpiled the discounted contraceptives---but those supplies are dwindling.

Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) has put forth a bill (HR 4054) that would eliminate this provision and lower costs again. Tell your legislator that you support HR 4054--and ensure that the women least able to pay for safe, affordable birth control will get it!

Comments

[Zoe]

I wish they would include in the bill, the removal of viagra from health insurance coverage and my spam folder!