College students use birth control. This is a fact that we all know, yet Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are attacking a recent decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to require new insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pay. As a student on a budget, this decision is huge.

House Republicans are pushing to undermine this provision by allowing Catholic hospitals and schools to be exempt, even though these organizations employ and serve individuals of different faiths and backgrounds. This would mean millions of workers and their families would lose access to affordable birth control, and so would students at some faith-based universities.

The school you attend or the company you work for should not dictate whether or not you have access to birth control.

Of the sexually active women in the United States, 99 percent have used birth control at some point in their lives, and the reality is that women of all faiths, including Catholics, use birth control and would benefit from the HHS decision.

Instead of focusing on jobs and the economy, they are spending their time trying to take affordable birth control away from women. On this issue, House Republicans are dead wrong.