Preventing pregnancy on Campus Costs more...

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Preventing pregnancy on campus costs more


Justina Wang
Staff Writer


(December 3, 2007) — Near the end of a semester when a change in federal law increased prices and slashed birth-control choices for college women, rallying cries are resounding in the student unions of local universities.

Campus women's groups have lobbied next to cafeterias, solicited friends to sign petitions, even met with legislators to push for action.

In student unions, beside pink-covered tables with women's rights buttons, they've set up huge piles of Ramen noodles swamping a single pack of birth control pills near a sign that says: "Which would you choose? Birth control or food."

The action started after a federal law went into effect this year, halting a decades-long arrangement that let drug makers sell oral contraceptives to university health clinics at greatly reduced prices. The law also took away discounts for community health clinics that offered birth control to low-income women nationwide, although local organizations have not been affected.

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