Birth Control Pills can cost up to $50 a month. $50 a month
to protect yourself from unwanted pregnancy. $50 a month to get one of the most
effective methods of contraception available.
$50 a month to lookout for your own wellbeing. Is this not outrageous?
The
fact that birth control pills, as well as other methods of control, are very
costly is no secret. In fact, a lot of
young women face tremendous financial stress when it comes to getting birth
control. Just look at this story from http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2007/10/11/the-pills-price-on-campus.
When Malia
Mason went into her university health center last December to refill her birth
control prescription, she got some shocking news: She'd soon be shelling out
$42 for each four-week pill pack of Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo, she was told, instead
of her usual $14. The 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh
filled the rest of her yearly prescription at the old price, but she finally
ran out this month and will have to come up with an additional $360 a year.
"That's the cost of my yearly electric bill or half my books for a
semester," she says. "I haven't yet figured out what I'm going to
do."
Is this what we want
young women to face? The choice between either having electricity or protecting
herself? Unfortunately, this is what we
face in modern day America; the war on sex. Conservatives are so determined to deter
people from having SAFE sex just because they aren’t married. In fact, birth
control JUST got covered by health care in August- a law that should have been
in place a long time ago, considering Viagra has been covered since its
introduction in 1998. This is the result of women’s sexuality not being viewed
as legitimate as men’s- men are sexual beings who can’t get enough, while women
have no sexual tendencies at all.
Ultimately, the decision
to protect one’s self from STD’s and pregnancy should be rewarded, NOT
punished. We should be encouraging women to learn how to protect themselves and
to understand the various methods that can be used to do so. By making these
methods free of charge, we can get more women to use them and ultimately make
ourselves less vulnerable to dieses and unwanted pregnancy.
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