University of New Mexico students are worried that a deficit in the federal budget will lead to more unwanted pregnancies. The University of New Mexico is now starting to feel the effects of the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act that took away some of the money that universities use to subsidize birth control. The price of birth control on campuses and family planning clinics has more than doubled.
“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.”
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.
Why should young women be worrying about choosing between birth control and the gym? The answer is simple, abstinence until marriage and you don’t even need birth control! That way you can go get yourself a tan every once in a while too ladies! Abstinence would solve all these problems, have money issues? Don’t have kids!
