Senator DeMint’s groundbreaking idea to make birth control 900% more expensive for the demographic most at risk of unplanned pregnancy and abortion was rejected yesterday by Congress. The Affordable Birth Control Act was included in the appropriations bill as fix for the problem of skyrocketing contraceptive prices on college campuses. The sudden spike in birth control costs stemmed from Bush’s Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 that removed college health centers from discount drug programs. Immediately after the removal, birth control prices spiked. In some cases women who previously paid $5 a month soon after Bush’s move were paying $50 a month for the same medication. DeMint’s proposal that Congress rejected yesterday would have removed the pricing fix and kept the costs inflated and contraception comfortably out of reach for those most in need of it.