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Colleges Raise Birth Control Costs, Making Natural Family Planning Attractive 9/9/2009 - 12:05 PM PST
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GLENVIEW, IL (September 9, 2009) - College women in the western Chicago suburbs and other areas around the country have seen skyrocketing prices in birth control on their campuses over the last year, due to a change in federal law.
The monthly cost of the birth control pill jumped from around $12 to $50, and the cost of the NuvaRing has jumped from about $18 to $36, according to a report in the New York Times. A recent federal law now prevents some clinics from offering reduced prices, thus raising costs.
It is due to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, in which President George Bush removed college health centers and some other clinics serving the poor from group discount drug programs. Some clinics stocked up on birth control pills for a while and were able to offer them at the lower prices, but that has changed.
Jenny Wawrose, a college sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, complains that her monthly birth control pills have gone up from $20 - $30 per month to $65. “I don’t know, I don’t think I can keep taking it, or this kind that much longer because it’s $700 a year, which is absurd,” Wawrose said, as reported in MyFoxAustin.com.
Natural Family Planning (NFP), on the other hand, involves fertility awareness, and is very low in cost and safe since it involves no drugs or devices. The Sympto-Thermal Method of NFP is based on scientific research and helps women know when they are fertile and when they aren’t. Many women don’t realize they are fertile for only a few days a month.
The Sympto-Thermal Method costs only $135 for a course taught by the Couple to Couple League and can be learned in three classes. There is also the CCL Home Study Course, available from CCL Central, for $150.00 plus shipping.
Classes in the Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural Family Planning are offered to married and engaged couples and can be taken at 15 locations in the Chicago, IL Archdiocese, as well as in southeast Milwaukee and northwest Indiana. The next class will begin Sun., Sept. 13 at St. Raphael Church in Naperville. For more information, go to www.nfpchicago.com.
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Couple to Couple League of Chicago
http://www.naturalfamilyplanningchicago.com IL, 60025 US
Monica Cassidy - Coordinator, 800-745-8252 |
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Comments
Given, NFP may be a viable option for married couples, this article fails to recognize that federally mediated reductions in women's reproductive health options is nothing less than an atrocity. The rights of American citizens to access safe and effective prescriptions at a fair and reasonable co-pay is at stake a mishap which predictably will lead to horrendous social-health outcomes. It is noteworthy that married couples represent a minority of sexually active adults aged 18-23, this making the general college population a poor and unfit candidate for NFP.
M. | 12/31/2009
This article ignores one vital fact. What percentage of college-going women are married??? Odds are, not a lot! Maybe this article should not be so much about switching to NFP, as it should be about college students who are putting their educations at risk of being derailed by an unexpected pregnancy - a risk that is theoretically the same regardless of using NFP or Artificial Birth Control. Not to mention STD's which can risk their health, and even their lives.
Jennifer | 12/16/2009
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