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For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control without paying out of pocket. This lets women make the health care decisions that are right for them and puts every one of us in charge of our own reproductive health.