Word up to my local VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood chapter and their work to get our own Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to support and co-sponsor the Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, which would allow students to have their birth control prescriptions filled at a discounted rate again. The article goes into greater detail about what happened to discounted birth control, but it’s all due to a federal law signed in 2005 and enacted last year.
Hopefully today’s event goes as well as our recent phone drives and hopefully it’s taken more seriously too. I don’t know if there are plans in the works to throw the phone at Senator Hutchison’s office again, but I’d be glad to do it. I’ve never really factored cost into decisions about protection before, but this serves to remind that there are a lot of people who have to and do.
Broken Rubbers 