What Would You Buy With An Extra $12,000?

That’s how much you could save if we came to our senses and finally instituted no-cost birth control for women and girls (like most other developed nations do).

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Sara Critchfield

May 23, 2012

Here’s a more personal story about what no-cost birth control could do:

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