Take Action: Save Birth Control Now!

Students and low-income women need your help
Tell Congress: “Save birth control now!”

What if Congress passed a law that made the price of your groceries go up by 900 percent? There would be an instant uproar, and you can bet the problem would be fixed, pronto.

So why is Congress dragging their feet when a recent law has made the price of birth control skyrocket to unaffordable prices for millions of women? For the college students and low-income women most affected by this cost hike, that’s no small matter.

Today Planned Parenthood is asking people across the country to demand that Congress take action, and NOW. Fill out the form to the right to demand that your member of Congress passes the Prevention Through Affordable Access Act.

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Dear [ Decision Maker ],

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I strongly urge you to co-sponsor the Prevention Through Affordable Access Act.

For 20 years, drug companies have made it possible for college health clinics and safety-net providers to purchase birth control at low prices in order to pass along the savings to the college students and low-income women who rely on them.

However, this fall, college women returned to campus to discover that the birth control that previously cost them $5-10 for a monthly supply now cost $40-50 per pack, making it far more difficult to afford.  Due to a provision included in the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA), as of January 1, 2007, every college and university health center and hundreds of safety-net providers were unintentionally cut off from accessing low-cost birth control and passing on the low price to college women and low-income women.  Skyrocketing prices are putting birth control out of reach for the college students and low-income women in need of family planning services to help them prevent unintended pregnancy.

That is why I am urging you to co-sponsor the Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, legislation that would make a technical fix to the DRA and restore safety-net and university clinics' ability to access low-cost contraceptives.  This legislation would not cost either the federal government or state Medicaid agencies.  It would merely allow drug manufacturers to offer deeply discounted prices to safety net health care providers.

As your constituent, I strongly urge you to support this bipartisan legislation that will fix the affordable birth control crisis affecting college health clinics and safety-net providers.

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]

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