Students protesting for cheaper birth control "So students don't have to make a choice between their

[ohiosmith]

birth control and their cell phone bill or their birth control and their gym membership"

ALBUQUERQUE - University of New Mexico students are worried the federal deficit is going to cause a boom in unwanted pregnancies.

UNM is now feeling the affects of the Deficit Reduction Act passed in 2005 whose funding cuts reduce money used by universities to subsidize birth control.

The price of birth control on campuses and family planning clinics has more than doubled. Today students at UNM encouraged their peers to call and ask lawmakers to cosponsor a bill that would return the funding for birth control.

"Birth control is probably the largest preventative measure of abortion and unwanted pregnancies, just because it's safe, it's affordable," UNM Molly Maguire-Marshall said. "Sometimes it's accessible, and we want to keep it that way.

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[murielm99]

1. Okay, that person made a stupid

comment about student priorities.

I don't believe that all students are that stupid about their priorities. You will always find a few airheads anywhere.

The issue is, however, valid. Birth control should be inexpensive and accessible for students and all women.

Cell phones? I paid for a cell phone for my daughter when she was on campus. I considered it an important item for her safety. I did not like the idea of her traveling alone between school and home without a phone. Cell phones are a necessity in this day and age. Of course, if she had to choose, birth control would have been the top choice. But no one should have to make that choice.