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Rachel M: @amandahess Without @PPact I couldn’t afford BC for almost two years after college working retail w/ bad insur. #priceiswrong

Corinne Marasco: My Mirena IUD cost $800 plus $100 for insertion—not paid for by my insurance. Tell @RepTomPrice your story #priceiswrong

Carolyn: @RepTomPrice, I paid $15/month for #birthcontrol in college— and that was on top of student loans. #priceiswrong

C. McCurdy: @RepTomPrice, I was only able to afford my IUD with Title X assistance. If I didn’t have it I’d be raising kids on welfare.#priceiswrong

Jess Mack: I pay $80/month for NuvaRing. Am counting down the days until the patent on that shiznat is up & we can get a generic! #priceiswrong

Jen: @RepTomPrice, I paid $40/mth for bc while in college. Paid $900 last year for an IUD. None of it covered by insurance. #priceiswrong

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These tweets are 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.