What more taunting, persecuting and dibilitating things will the dogmatic hypo-crits think of to do before Bushwacky is out of the module...

God help us all...

Just kidding.

Id has already meddled enough.

Sad to say, that might have been a problem for me during my college days. Guys don't exactly offer to pay for their half of birth control (outside of the obligatory condoms for the first bit of the relationship), and as a youth I would have found it hard to ask. Those little pills can be pricey.

I had a college friend or two try the wishful-thinking method of birth control ('if I'm usually careful, and I really don't want to get pregnant, I won't), and needless to say that didn't work out so well. I can only guess that more girls would try it, if birth control were a bigger chunk of the monthly budget.

Any word on whether Obama would support this bill, should he become president?

I never get the sense in these sorts of stances taken by conservatives. It should be fairly obvious that increasing the costs of birth control will increase the number of abortions and/or unwed mothers; or do they think shotgun weddings are still prevalent? You would think, based on rhetoric, that conservatives think abortion and unwed mothers are the bigger problem. Ah, but I forget that they aren't part of the logic & reality based community.

Why not just advocate the use of condoms, they are cheaper, protect from STDs and best of all BOTH sexes have to require its use.

No condom, no sex, is a much healthier strategy for women, isn;t it? pills may leave more women open to taking risks of having sex without a condom, and lets be honest, stds have a much more detrimental effect on women. Increased risks of cancer among them.

Long term its the best strategy, isn't it?

I don't mind my tax dollar being used for health reasons- for boys and girls in school, but I'm really tired of having to finance peoples lifestyle choices. Especially when a perfectly working, cheaper and better method is available- condoms.

They got me through college. actually they still get me through! I'm a single guy in my thirties and I wouldn't think of sex without them.

Sorry ladies but that doesn't actually seem like a great deal of money for college students. $1.65/tab/day is about half the cost of Lipitor. Ok so it's $1.30/day more than the lowest rock bottom generic SSRI but still, less than the price of one tall regular coffee at Starbucks. And these appear to be the highest of the high end estimates on the cost. Seems like you have to separate the college coeds from the women who literally don't have a pot to piss in or a window to toss it out of. And if you are homeless, living on the street, begging for change, maybe you need something more permanent.

Look Douchebag, $50 might not be unreasonable for a later middle aged insured person needing lipitor, but for a young woman in her early childbearing years for whom the economic burden is unthinkable, just $50 can be steep. My daughter goes into debt another $2000 every semester, and as her parents, we go about another 1k into debt per semester while keeping things tightly stretched at home for the younger children. Another $600 a year is significant for many families - let alone young women working their way through school with minimal family support. I don't know any college women that can afford to treat themselves to starbucks everyday, but they clearly lead a generously parentally subsidized life, which isn't the case for many in this stretched economy.

that was the ecomonic burden of Having a child. :)

The same people who are so against abortions are usually the same people who are the first in line to cut social programs for young children and to campaign against comprehensive sex education, which of course contributes to more situations that lead women of all ages to choose to have an abortion (uh oh, there's that word: "choice").

To me, it's all about power, and men generally aren't okay with giving up that power to women. In their heart of hearts, I think a lot of men (politicians and otherwise) don't trust women to make the "right" decision and are afraid of women being able to make choices they disagree with, or, even more scarily to them, that might inconvenience said men.

the increasing acceptance of oral and anal intercourse makes the pill obsolete.

on the other hand, if someone points out that their actions are making oral and anal sex more attractive, perhaps they would be more generous?

I got news for you....most couples don't like to use condoms, especially after both partners have been checked for HIV/STD's, and they're in a committed, monogomous relationship. STD testing and birth control prescriptions were an essential part of a relationship in my college crowd- after the "dating" phase, both partners would get tested, then the girl would start BC and the condoms would come off. It meant you were serious about each other. Kind of cute, actually.

Problem is, if BC is more expensive, girls are less likely to be able to afford it consistently. Then when the relationship turns serious and people are less careful about condoms (as they inevitably are), the chance of unintended pregnancy goes up. Which is bad.

so what's the big deal? I believe some other pharmacies, such as walgreens, also have such prices.

Svutlana use for work for big drugged company and always wonder me why of all drug, oral contraceptive never go generic.

Maybe oral contraceptive is extreme complicate like secret sauce on Big Mac. Maybe nobody want for take chance with roulette wheel spin when take cheap copy of birth control pill. Who know?

Maybe Broadsheet reader have answer...

I'll ignore the snark about having news for me for now....

Nowhere in your response is there any reason why tax payers should bare the burden. Your saying these are college adults, they are now choosing to be in a relationship, they "don't like" condoms..........so where in all that claptrap is the part that I should pay for it?

They "don't like" condoms. So heres news right back at ya.....

You don't get to subsidize your preference on others dime.

They don't like it? they can share the cost- $25 a month each. If they cant afford that- then stick to condoms.

Theres alot of shit I don't like either, but nobody pays for it, I do. Always did.

So unless you have a real reason why I should be made to pay for their "likes" in the bedroom, you've got no point.