"My junior year in college, it was such a struggle to afford the pill every month. I didn’t have enough time in my schedule to have a steady job, plus it was just plain expensive with everything else I had to pay for on my own. My mother had just gotten remarried and became a born again Christian. I remember calling her from the student pharmacy, begging her to help me pay for the pill and some flu medicine. She refused ‘for my own good,’ even though I was taking the pill because I had serious issues with cramps and irregular periods (and had still never had sex, but that shouldn’t even be a factor)…When I was in my twenties, working for nonprofit domestic violence advocacy groups, not making a ton of money, and birth control was a significant dent in my paycheck, I complained about this to my boyfriend. He thought that the pill was a ‘luxury’ and that I shouldn’t complain about it, or just stop taking it. I decided he was a luxury I couldn’t afford. —Jen, 31, writer/editor"
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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