Students who rely on the University of Montana's Curry Health Center as an inexpensive way to purchase birth control may be paying $30.00 more in a few months.

Under the Deficit Reduction Act, prices for oral contraceptives, which include Ortho Try-cyclen and Cyclessa, will jump from $20.00 to $50.00 in January. This increase will effect over 50% of women at Curry Health Center, as well as family planning clinics, like Planned Parenthood.

Members of Students for Choice gathered to petition the skyrocketing prices Wednesday. Students for Choice President, Sapphire Diamant-Rink, says the price hike could force some women to stop using oral contraceptives. 

"This price increase is going to force young women to make difficult choices with their money, possibly forcing them to go off birth control. If women on UM's campus can not afford prescription birth control, they may skip pills or rely on less effective means of contraception,"

The Students for Choice are responding to the concerns by presenting the petitions to Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester to take up the issue on Capitol Hill.