"I had just moved to New York City after college, working at an unpaid internship and a few part-time jobs, watching my savings fly out the window with alarming speed, even as I ate PB&J sandwiches for every meal and drank only 40s. Paying the $30 per month to stay on the pill seemed silly since I wasn’t even having sex regularly (reason #5,129 that long distance relationships suck: there is nothing more depressing than spending money you don’t have on birth control that you’re not even fully utilizing). Just using condoms seemed like a reasonable, cost-effective alternative. And it was—until the condom broke. After shelling out $450 for an abortion, $30 a month seemed worth it. —Maya, 25, writer"
In response to Rep. Tom Price who claimed that no woman has ever been denied access to birth control because she could not afford it. ”Bring me one woman who has been left behind. Bring me one. There’s not one,” Price told ThinkProgress when it asked how low-income women could access contraception if it were not insured.
Obviously his statement is cis-centric and this issue affects people other than women.
Feel free to submit your own story to me or tweet it using the hashtag #priceiswrong.
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