'Free prescription contraception is long overdue in B.C.,' says Sophie Choong with AccessBC.
With Budget 2023 around the corner, AccessBC is calling for free prescription contraception with newly installed advertisements at SkyTrain stations across Metro Vancouver.
“Free prescription contraception has been a longstanding government promise. It was in the minister of health’s most recent and previous mandate letters, but it has yet to be implemented,” says Sophie Choong, high school student and AccessBC’s marketing director, who led the fundraising campaign for the transit ads and billboard.
At present, an intrauterine device can cost up to $500. Oral birth control pills can cost $20 a month, with implants costing up to $350. “A 2010 study from Options for Sexual Health estimated that providing universal, no-cost contraception coverage in B.C. would save the government as much as $95 million per year.”
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