<p>Yeah, Higherlead. Somehow I am certain you are opposed to all those welfare queens taking your tax dollars to pay for their infants and children. So, why would you be a proponent of more unwanted kids? Who is going to pay for their health care, education, and perhaps even their housing and food? You surely won't want to!</p>
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The best way to avoid an unwanted pregnancy is avoid sex but I guess it is quaintly old fashioned to expect anyone to delay gratification
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Not all consumers of campus birth control are hedonistic 18-year-olds -- some are married grad students who almost can't afford birth control and certainly can't afford a baby.</p>
<p>"Not all consumers of campus birth control are hedonistic 18-year-olds -- some are married grad students who almost can't afford birth control and certainly can't afford a baby."</p>
<p>And this is the school's problem how?</p>
<p>Fortunately- abortions are still legal- and the abortion pill is safe and effective.</p>
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Women who use abortion pills rather than the more common surgical method seem to face no greater risk of tubal pregnancy or miscarriage in later pregnancies, according to a new study.</p>
<p>The federally funded research, based on nearly 12,000 Danish women, is considered the best study to date of the impact of this newer abortion method on subsequent pregnancies.
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<p>Not</a> having a baby- is cheaper and safer than having one</p>
<p>weird... this exact same thread (with almost all of the exact same posts by the same people at the same time) is on the College Life board as well...</p>
<p>well I rarely venture off the parent board- but I am adamant that those people who aren't ready emotionally/financially/ or physically to become parents- refrain from doing so. We see in the news every day unfortunately, the results from what happens when they don't.</p>
<p>I also don't think it is reasonable to expect all normal healthy adults- to refrain from sexual relations unless they are planning to become parents-</p>
<p>Affordable, safe birth control, should be widely available & I would rather my health ins subsidize the costs of birthcontrol, than viagra.</p>
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And this is the school's problem how?
Well, in my case, the school also pays for graduate student health insurance and heavily subsidizes childcare, so presumably they have an interest in keeping the graduate student population as child-free as possible.</p>
<p>oh, i meant that there are the exact same posts. like my exact posts from this thread are on that thread as well, but i never posted on that thread. it's as if this thread was duplicated onto the college life board...</p>
<p>but anyways, i agree with you emeraldkity.</p>
<p>"They stopped making more land- I don't see any where to put them"</p>
<p>Then can I assme you are in favor of a fence on the border and a crackdown on illegal immigration?</p>
<p>"Not all consumers of campus birth control are hedonistic 18-year-olds -- some are married grad students who almost can't afford birth control and certainly can't afford a baby."</p>
<p>Well you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you get what you need. Get a little creative with your sex life and you can get what you need and not get pregnant.</p>
<p>Sorry you are just not going to convince me that in 2007 a college student A) doesn't know where babies come from and B} Can't figure out a way of taking care of their own needs without either getting pregnant or dipping into my wallet. We presumably are not talking crack 'ho here if she managed to get into the University of Wisconsin. I spent a little time in Madison myself back in the day and laid more pipe than the waterworks and didn't get anyone pregnant. I was poor as a church mouse, but not so poor as to do something irresponsible.</p>
<p>From News of the Weird:</p>
<p>As protesters gathered at colleges around the country to criticize federal budget cutbacks that would raise the price of subsidized birth control at student health services, one University of New Mexico student described the imminent horror to Albuquerque’s KFRQ-TV: “(Students shouldn’t) have to make a choice between their birth control and their cell phone bill or their birth control and their gym membership …”</p>
<p>My college offers contraceptives free of charge as part of its health insurance plan. Considering that (a) my parents don’t know I’m sexually active, (b) my mother disapproves of hormonal birth control, and (c) at $50 a month, I could never afford it, it’s something I’m very grateful for.
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According to Licht, Dartmouth has been able to exercise effective cost control by stocking only one generic brand of birth control throughout the pharmacy.</p>
<p>“In the world of pharmaceuticals, when you get down to generic drugs, you come across many different manufacturers,” Licht said. “We’ve made an arrangement with our wholesaler — the middleman — that if we exclusively buy from a particular manufacturer we can reduce the cost because the manufacturer can sell more.”</p>
<p>Licht said that the decision to stock one generic equivalent of each form of birth control has been met with acceptance by most students and that the plan is not intended to limit birth control options.</p>
<p>“We say, ‘This is what we have right now. We have an FDA-approved generic form for this type of birth control. If this is not acceptable to you, you are welcome to take your prescription to CVS,’” Licht said. “But 95 percent of people choose to stay because Dartmouth has a good insurance plan.”
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[TheDartmouth.com</a> | Birth control remains free at Dartmouth](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2007/11/28/news/birthcontrol/]TheDartmouth.com”>http://thedartmouth.com/2007/11/28/news/birthcontrol/)</p>
<p>And for whatever it’s worth (as far as “hedonistic 18-year-olds” go), not everyone who uses birth control in college sleeps around. I’m in a serious long-term relationship, and neither my boyfriend nor I had any previous sexual experience. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Higherlead, if you were laying so much pipe, how do you know that you didn’t get anyone pregnant? You may have been keeping the clinics busy with your aborted fetuses…</p>
<p>I’m happy to pay for D’s birth control (about $30/month, w/ my insur Rx plan) as I do for all of her other medical expense (acne, allergies, etc.). OTOH, I expect her to cover the cost of “extra” and even some lesser necessities, such as cell phone service (cost of her line on my plan $15/mo), hair care, gym membership, etc.</p>