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I'm in a bad mood tonight, so I have no commentary other than "ARGH".

A little change in price makes a BIG difference to college students. Even for the fact that birth control is not covered in health insurance!!

When I was in college, I had an allowance. I stretched my dollars the best way I thought I could have. I could have bought more expensive things, but instead I shopped around and compared prices/quality etc. But even a few dollars mattered, because it sometimes meant the difference between being able to pay for a lost bus pass, or to have "food" money on the last few days of the month. I was lucky enough not to eat a diet of mostly ramen noodles and mac 'n' cheese boxes, but it's a reality for some students.

Being in college is like being a rich and poor person. "Rich" because you have the opportunity to be at school, get a degree and possibly have a better career in the future, and "poor" because the debt you get from student loans and credit will possibly haunt you for the next 2-3 decades of your life.

I really hope that college age folk don't stop buying their birth control products but instead, use smart planning of their money. Birth control and contraceptives are still cheaper than abortion, and it is much cheaper than a pregnancy.

But financial planning is an important skill that many of my generation- 20-somethings and younger- were never taught. It's an important independent skill to acquire in order to secure the ability to adapt to things like the rising cost of B.C.

Abstinence is cheapest, but who the hell in their right mind WANTS to practice that? Especially if you do meet someone special, with all those chemicals in your brain and body going off and crying to mate with some one or at least something. xp People who think that the the entire over 18 crowd should completely be abstinent before marriage are extremely naive about the way people REALLY are.

Jeez I have to say i feel extremely lucky that i have "rich" parents who pay for everything eventhough i try to get my own money and such. But i do know people who think that oh, if they can't afford BC anymore they will just stop using it and pray nothing happens.

Not the purpose of increasing prices well, maybe not intent, but it sure looks to me like they're hoping this will stop college kids from engaging in sexual behaviour. Which it will most definately not.

Yep, a lot of my classmates are married, but don't want kids until they finish their degrees, especially the ones going for a masters' or a PhD in something, or applying to medical or law school.. Because not everybody's mom, aunt, sisters, or cousins want to babysit for them.

When you're a student, most of your money goes into trying to stay out of debt as much as possible. x_x

Not to be rude, but can you find proof of this? I live in Canada as well, but as far as I know, abortion is still an expensive procedure, but most times it's covered 80%-90% under health insurance.

Are you talking about private insurance or provincial health insurance that uses your tax dollars so you don't have to pay directly for certain services? Abortions are covered under Medicare and the Canada Health Act. Your province will usually pay for abortions in hospitals and clinics, unless of course, your province happens to be New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia, or PEI (which doesn't even have facilities). They've been known to limit funding to clinics, which isn't allowed under federal regulations.

News article about the subject.

.... People get birth control at college health centers? sad Lucky.



Then again, our health center is pretty black and white: Girls that come in are assumed to be pregnant, no matter what the complaint, and guys are all hung over, because that's what college students do. :sigh: