University of New Mexico Students Whining About Cuts in Birth Control Funding

Lessee,

University of New Mexico students are worried the federal deficit is going to cause a boom in unwanted pregnancies.

Translation:  We're worried that we're gonna lose our cheap birth control and pass to engage in otherwise risky sexual behavior, and that we might have to either sacrifice our personal luxuries or get our parents to spring for it, and we don't wanna do that.

The cost of birth control has more than doubled, since the Deficit Reduction Act, which cut subsidies for birth control to colleges and universities. 

"Birth control is probably the largest preventative measure of abortion and unwanted pregnancies, just because it's safe, it's affordable," UNM Molly Maguire-Marshall said.  "Sometimes it's accessible, and we want to keep it that way.

"We want to keep it affordable; we want to keep it accessible to college students."

Okay, so assemble a charity so people can donate to subsidize birth control.  Why should the taxpayers pay for your birth control?

Restoring the funds will reduce the squeeze on cash-strapped students, added Ambrosia Ortiz.

"So they don't have to make a choice between their birth control and their cell phone bill or their birth control and their gym membership and their birth control," Ortiz said.  "These are choices women that women shouldn't have to make.

"Birth control should be very affordable."

Oh, I see.  Its not that you can't afford it, its that you don't want to pay for it, and students that engage in risky sexual activity at UNM shouldn't be burdened with the choice and responsibility to pay, right? 

The students also were accepting donations trying to raise enough money to offset the price of the increase for those students who can't afford birth control now.

There you go, now follow through with it, not so hard, is it?  Just do that, and you can have your subsidized birth control without forcing people to pay for it with government force! 

The students said they expect that expect with enough, the Prevention Through Affordable Access Act can pass because it is a technical correction to the deficit reduction act and wouldn't cost taxpayers a penny more.

There is no free lunch.

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