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(CNSNews.com) – The Obama campaign is offering an e-card that supporters can send to family and friends via email or Facebook that suggests a woman would need $18,000 to pay for her own birth control if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) were overturned.
This particular e-card is in the form of a letter from a woman to her mother, asking for an $18,000 loan to help pay for birth control.
“Dear Mom,” the card says, “Mitt Romney says he would repeal the Affordable Care Act. So, here’s a quick question: Can I borrow $18,000 to help pay for my birth control? Thanks.”
While the card does not explain how this $18,000 figure was derived, the implication is that in repealing Obamacare Romney would end the Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation, issued under Obamacare, that mandates that nearly all health insurance plans must offer without any additional costs or fees sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that induce abortions.
$18,000 could buy at least 30 years-worth of birth control.
According to Planned Parenthood, birth control costs between $15 and $50 per month. So even if it is assumed President Obama’s fictional card writer pays the high end of those costs -- $50 per month -- $18,000 would buy her a 30-year supply of birth control pills.
If Obamacare were repealed, under the scenario this card envisions, a 21-year-old woman could buy birth control at $50 per month for 30 years until she was 51 years old.
If she buys a cheaper brand of birth control, her $18,000 would go much farther. At $20 per month, the $18,000 the Obama campaign claims it will cost will provide a 75-year supply of birth control.