Restore Affordable Birth Control!
What if Congress passed a law that made the price of your groceries go up by 900 percent?
There would be an instant uproar, and you can bet the problem would be fixed, immediately.
In 2006, Congress changed a law which, for nearly twenty years, has allowed pharmaceutical companies to provide birth control pills at very low cost to university and college health care centers. In doing so, Congress inadvertently cut off college and university health centers and some community health providers from obtaining birth control at low cost.
On some college campuses, birth control has gone from $5 or $10 to $40 or $50 dollars. Some college health centers have stopped providing birth control at all. This pricing affects over 3 million college students and 750,000 low-income women and is having a devastating impact on women and families nationwide.
Tell your member of Congress to fix the problem by making a small change in the law. It doesn't cost Congress or taxpayers a dime, but will allow university health centers and Planned Parenthood to offer affordable birth control to women who need it!
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