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" As a girl who&amp;#039;s taken the Pill for over a decade (crazy, right?!), I&amp;#039;ve shelled out a pretty good chunk of my hard-earned change for birth control. But it turns out that the amount I pay for my daily dose of hormones might depend on where I live, according to a new study. Looking specifically at the state of Florida, researchers at the University of Tennessee recently discovered that women in low-income neighborhoods may actually have to drop more cash for birth control than ladies living in more affluent areas.  The cost of seven kinds of contraception\u2014from the Pill to the ring\u2014were cross-tabulated with the median household income of various counties. Almost every type of prescription-only contraception was more expensive in lower-income locales.  While there&amp;#039;s no word yet on why this is, it&amp;#039;s safe to say that it&amp;#039;s pretty effed up. Especially because other studies have shown that women in low-income neighborhoods are less likely to have access to emergency contraception and that the teen pregnancy rate is much higher in these zip codes as well.  Clearly, something needs to be done to fix this discrepancy so every woman has equal access to the birth control she needs.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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