Birth control plan draws controversy

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The Obama administration decision to which this week require that insurance companies to cover all birth control costs is a major breakthrough for the unwanted pregnancies to prevent - an issue of national public health officials said.

But critics argue birth control is not health care and that it goes against the beliefs of the people, all contraception reject.

The mandate 1 January 2013 enter into force expected to is announced in the women care package as President Barack Obama health care law. The Institute of medicine the services that should be dealt with recommended.

"It would be really nice for us in this country to do to prevent a better job, unwanted pregnancies", said Dr. Anita Bublik-Anderson, an obstetrician/gynecologist at Aspirus. "It's practically an epidemic."

The package is expected to be insured women benefit, the birth control costs can afford. Prices between $10 and more than $50 per month for birth control may be, officials said.

The changes should cause even an increase in insurance premiums, although officials are not sure how much prices could jump.

Unwanted pregnancies are more than half of all pregnancies in the United States, according to the Centers for disease control and prevention.

So birth control easier to obtain, is an important step in the prevention of unwanted pregnancies, but cost remains one of the biggest obstacles for some women, said LON Newman, Director of family planning health services in Wausau, the birth control offers
and other services for women.

The request covers all forms of contraception approved by the food and drug administration, including pills, and sterilization.

Anti-abortion advocates criticize the mandate, say that birth control is not prevention, but a lifestyle choice.

Virginia municipality, spokeswoman for pro life Wisconsin, said that their organization expects, that the change will lead to even more dramatic changes in what is covered.

"Something so controversial than as a fundamental right to establish birth control, it is only a prelude to abortion as a basic health care, the right setting," she said.

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