Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.
Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.
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.