Since the FDA approved a newer and non-latex version called the FC2 last year, campaigns urging women to use the protection method have been full go across the nation, including in Washington D.C. where a $500,000 grant from the MAC AIDS Fund allowed for the distribution of free female condoms to the public.

Many argue that the condom is difficult to insert, and that are not enough educational tools yet produced to teach women how to use it. And the price isn’t making it a very appealing option, either. Three female condoms cost $6.49, while a package of 10 male condoms sells for about $5. Add this to the list of contraception methods that are proving to be too expensive for the average American woman.

To make birth control affordable, women’s heath advocates are trying to get the tab for the Pill and other contraceptives picked up by the government once health care reform kicks in this fall. The overhaul will require health plans to begin providing a range of preventive health services at no cost to patients. The question is if preventing reproduction should be put into the same category preventing diseases.

Birth control is a controversial issue at any age, but now the Daily Express reports that a group of doctors in Scotland will offer girls as young as 13 the option of long-lasting contraceptive implants, saying that young women should consider injections and other “invasive” methods to avoid unwanted pregnancies at all ages.