University of New Mexico students are lobbying for cheaper birth control.
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 cut subsidies that universities used to keep the cost of birth control low, and now these unfortunate college girls are forced to pay market price:
Restoring the funds will reduce the squeeze on cash-strapped students, added Ambrosia Ortiz.
“So they don’t have to make a choice between their birth control and their cell phone bill or their birth control and their gym membership and their birth control,” Ortiz said. “These are choices women [...] shouldn’t have to make.
The poor babies don’t have taxpayer subsidized sex lives anymore.
I can only imagine the pain of not being able to afford a gym membership. According to an op-ed in the UNM student newspaper, these women will now have to pay $35 a month for birth control. I mean, that could seriously cut into your drinking budget, or prevent you from buying another sorority event t-shirt. As a nation, we need to ask ourselves: What are we doing to make sure that our sisters, daughters and friends can get laid cheaply?
