by KYW's Kim Glovas
College students will be seeing staggering prices for birth control as they head back to class. The increase is because of the 2005 Federal Deficit Reduction Act which actually went into effect in January.
Dayle Steinberg, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania, says the law has made it more difficult for university health centers and some family planning clinics to offer cheap birth control:
"Millions of women across the country are now facing a crisis when it comes to their access to birth control. They have to pay significantly more for their contraceptive products than they had in the past, and in many cases, the increase cost means that many women can't afford birth control."
Steinberg says in some cases, the cost of birth control is going up ten times what it was, for example, from $3 to $30. She says the only way to change the law is for students to write their congress members and ask them to fix the law and make birth control affordable.
For more information, go to www.ppsp.org.
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