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Posts tagged contraception.
The FACTS about the cost of birth control →
- Oral contraceptives, or “the pill,” can cost $1,210 per year without health insurance.
- Women of reproductive age spend 68 percent more on out-of-pocket health care costs than do men, in part because of contraceptive costs.
- Surveys show that nearly one in four women with household incomes of less than $75,000 have put off a doctor’s visit for birth control to save money in the past year.
- Twenty-nine percent of women report that they have tried to save money by using their method inconsistently.
- More than half of young adult women say they have not used their method as directed because it was cost-prohibitive.
- Nearly half of women ages 18–34 with household incomes less than $75,000 report they need to delay or limit their childbearing because of economic hardships they’ve experienced in recent years.
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theatlantic:
Obama to Sandra Fluke: Your Parents Should Be Really Proud
After Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” for testifying to Congress about the need for contraceptive health care coverage, the Georgetown law student became something of a lightening rod. Now President Obama has called to thank her. The President called Fluke on the phone just before her appearance on Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC Friday, she told Mitchell, and offered words of support and an implicit rebuke of Limbaugh. This comes after Speaker John Boehner criticized the conservative radio host and at least one advertiser abandoned his show.
Fluke told Mitchell, “[Obama] encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of American women, and what was really personal for me was that he said to tell my parents they should be really proud.”
Read more. [Images: MSNBC/Reuters]
Allison Yarrow writes about how Fluke isn’t scared of Rush.
Also, watch Fluke’s testimony.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0a0hrHonX1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Obama to Sandra Fluke: Your Parents Should Be Really Proud
After Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” for testifying to Congress about the need for contraceptive health care coverage, the Georgetown law student became something of a lightening rod. Now President Obama has called to thank her. The President called Fluke on the phone just before her appearance on Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC Friday, she told Mitchell, and offered words of support and an implicit rebuke of Limbaugh. This comes after Speaker John Boehner criticized the conservative radio host and at least one advertiser abandoned his show.
Fluke told Mitchell, “[Obama] encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of American women, and what was really personal for me was that he said to tell my parents they should be really proud.”
Read more. [Images: MSNBC/Reuters]
Allison Yarrow writes about how Fluke isn’t scared of Rush.
Also, watch Fluke’s testimony.
untitledunidentifiedunfinished:
In honor of World Contraception Day, here, have some contraception!
Protecting oneself from pregnancy is AWESOME. Let’s celebrate medical science for allowing us to choose if/when to have children!
Find out what you can do to support access to contraception worldwide at the World Contraception Day website.
Important stuff guys!
If anyone has any questions about my experiences with the IUD coil then fire away :]
