Anti-Contraception Senator Proposes 900% Price-Hike On Contraception For College Women

Anti-contraception Senator Jim DeMint insisted this week that birth control prices be 900% higher for college women than they were previously. You'd think the Senator, who professes to be against abortion, would want to make contraception as accessible as possible for women in college since they're the demographic with the highest rate of unintended pregnancy and the highest rate of abortion. College women typically don't have much income and are also disproportionately likely to be uninsured; it's not the pool of people you want to force to "splurge" if they want to use protection. "We do know that high fees act as a barrier to obtaining care. That is classically understood in campus health services," explained Claudia Covello, director at the University of California-Berkeley's health center, to Time magazine.

The DeMint move is just the latest, and we're talking by minutes, in a month of repeated attacks against access to contraception. Obama wants common ground, but the current Republican cabal wants to stomp its feet on the fringe. So routine now are the attacks on contraception that the anti-contraception crew will use any excuse, like the aunt who dolls up the house for every minor holiday. The anti-contraception team dresses up their attacks on birth control in whatever polemic is being celebrated that day even if, like that "Kiss Me I'm Irish" shirt worn by your aunt's chihuahua, the claim is not true at all.

When Prevention First legislation was introduced in the Senate it consisted of proposals that would improve access to contraception. And yet it was referred to by contraception opponents as an "abortion bailout." When the stimulus package included a simple budget-neutral provision to streamline state billing procedures for contraceptive services, the Family Research Council called it a "political payoff". Now, DeMint through an amendment hopes to remove the Affordable Birth Control Act, which requires no expenditure but simply reinstates college health centers and other safety net clinics back into the discounted drug pricing program. The polemic decoration DeMint uses is that lowering the cost of birth control for college age women is an "earmark" for Planned Parenthood.

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He's clearly earned the designation of worst person in the world.

:7

for slovenly radio show hosts too....

when the offence is exacerabated by assigning an employee an incriminating "errand".

In fact, every member of Congress who's against birth control for women should publicly and unequivocally state his or her position on ED drugs.

maintain a self-conscious silence on that subject. ;-)

What an asshole.

to the price of viagra & cialis & other prescription male enhancements drugs; this is the way it should always go, tie it to male meds always.

Mr. Demint sounds more like the taliban everyday. :scared:

and wall the fucking state off already.

Seriously that state has been nothing but problems since the convention to adopt the Declaration of Indepdence.

You would also think that with a University that its students proudly where COCKS on their hat they might be concerned about birth control.

:rofl:

We'll do it sooner or later; Myrtle Beach is full of transplanted Yankees. We're doing it with Virginia and North Carolina; South Carolina and Georgia will fall, as well.

I'm for walling the assholes off and letting them eat each other than moving back in.

over people in general, and college students in particular, having sex for pleasure. There are countless screeds against "the hook-up culture" (especially on college campuses) in conservative media.

$251.55 + S&H @ 3 Day Guarantee $8.95 x saddling college women with cruel & unusual costs, responsibilities & punishments while college men are handed a republican pass to tip toe through the tulips scot free = DeMint ~ What A Fucking Idiot!!

Why can't I have leadership that would smack this douchebag back to the fucking stone age where he belongs?

I want a Senator, SOMEbody, to stand up and say, in no uncertain terms, "Mr. DeMint, why don't YOU go FUCK yourself."

barefoot pregnant in the kitchen! Hell yeah!

What an asshole.

up pregnant & held down by child rearing.

No other explanation for his stance on birth control.