Birth control decontrol.

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The Independent Women's Forum (IWF) is a nonprofit organization aimed at winning women over to the cause of limited government. In light of the controversy over a federal mandate requiring employers to offer health benefits that include birth control, IWF Senior Fellow Nicki Nelly offered three reasons government should (mostly) get out of the contraception business.

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1 Access. "Birth control, in its many forms, is widely available, and studies have shown that 99 percent of women use a form of contraception (other than natural family planning) at some point in their lives. They may not like what they have to pay for their preferred option, but women in America are not denied care or treatments."

2 Cost. "The market offers a wide variety of products and services at varying price points...