Yea affordable birth control, m'eh to the billboard, and who's Jim Cramer trying to fool now?

Yay to affordable birth control. I'm really glad to hear that.

What's the deal with the billboard? Almost childish.

A bride sale? Holy cow.

"We can unlearn our shame of being naked."

I'm not ashamed of my shame of being naked.

I'm actually grateful for other people's shame of being naked - I wish some of them wouldn't try to over come it on the beach.

Haha...agreed.

LOL steph. I'm not bothered by being naked i lived in an open plan dorm with 8 other girls for four years, so i got over it. The billboard is sooo childish and stupid, rush limbaugh 1 - the DNC 0

She is so darling Nya!

Yay cheap birth control

I feel like I'm missing something because when was birth control NOT affordable?

The most I ever paid was 20 bucks a month with my health plan. Without my health plan I got a generic for the same price. Isn't it free from Planned Parenthood? Aren't condoms only like 7 bucks a pack?

What am I missing?

I guess they're even cheaper now haus. I think its the thought that counts

hmm.. well a better headline would be "Birth Conrtol is now cheaper thanks to new laws" rather than "affordable birth conrtol is back" because that headline is misleading. Apparently it never left.

Hopefully cheaper birth control will = fewer abortions!

Plus, "cheap" is pretty relative.

My birth control pills cost me $42 per month with my health insurance, and that is the generic.

From the article:
"The price of birth control at family planning clinics and college health centers shot up following the passage of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, a federal law designed to save taxpayers money on Medicaid reimbursements for drugs reports U.S. News and World Report."

On Citizen last April:
http://www.citizensugar.com/1578821

I have no shame being naked. Like right now.

The campaign by the left to frame conservatives as followers of Rush has been taken to its obvious and absurd conclusion. Maybe we can focus on issues now.

I know some people who like to be nakers from mid-section, down!

Just kidding. But I wish I did.

"With the pill spiking to more than $50 a month (from $12) some female students report taking up more part-time work, or cutting back on their grocery or social spending."

OK so they have to make choices with their spending? So? Everyone makes choices with their money. If we let drug companies donate the drugs people would complain about that.

Not to mention that the pill doesn't protect against STDs, so really they should be using a condom instead, which are cheaper anyways.

org - can't focus on issues, that would be a pandora's box. must continue distractions! did you see Oprah's hair today?? yuk!

Who wants to use a condom, anyway? That's an issue you'll get no traction on Haus.

Obviously not from you... the GUY!...

actually since you're here, id like male perspective, does it bother you that you don't have any options besides condoms? don't you wish you had another option instead of condom or trust? would you take a pill if they had one?

if i were a guy it would bother me that i only had condoms or trusting that the girl is taking her pill.

I don't think about it too much, since it seems like almost all reproductive choices default to women. But I have thought about how I have no recourse if my partner decides to get an abortion or not get an abortion or whatever I thought they should do. It doesn't seem fair that I could be on the hook, so to speak, without any real input or decision making power.

As far as a pill goes, it would depend on the side effects. I think women get side effects like breast enlargement, which I think is pretty neat. If one of the side effects was pec-enlargement and I could add thirty pounds to my bench, I would definitely do it. (I'm sure there are also negative side effects to female birth control, but I'm pretty self centered so I don't know any of those.)

hahah! org you make me laugh!

Amybdk, my friend dated a guy who did like to be naked from the waist down. He slept in a shirt, no bottoms! We still talk about how weird that was.

Re: birth control, I was also surprised to know it wasn't affordable before! I think generic on my insurance plan is $15/month, but then again I remember way back in the day (apparently before that 2005 law) when it was $4 for three months when I was in college. I suppose affordability is all relative.

haus i loved her hair lol, i was like it doesn't look like a bad perm anymore

The statistics on STD's are just horrendous. Your out of your mind not to use a condom unless you are in an exclusive relationship, and after blood tests.

Haus, re: your planned parenthood question- I live in a town with three colleges, and the planned parenthoods here charge $28 for a month of pills.

thanks for the info guys!

nya - really?? I wasn't a fan. I feel like it kind of aged her. But It was nice to see something different!

"Amybdk, my friend dated a guy who did like to be naked from the waist down. He slept in a shirt, no bottoms! We still talk about how weird that was."

I'm so jealous, Modus Vivendi!

Haus, I think that my pill was $34 at PP, but I called around to pharmacies, and it wasn't on any of the Walgreens $4 prescriptions, but it was on their $9 prescription list. This was all sans insurance!