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I go to the county health department for my birth control. My university and the county are part of a program in the state of Oregon called the Family Planning Project. All of the Planned Parenthoods, county health departments, and universities here participate, and so long as you meet income requirements (and most women do) all family planning services and birth control are free, including IUDs and some STD screening. I go in once a year and they stock me up on my method of choice--the methods vary depending on where you go (the county doesn't carry Nuvaring, for instance, only carries certain kinds of birth control pills, and only has the Copper-T IUD). I also get as many condoms as I can carry. Literally.
The State of Oregon really wised up this year regarding family planning and contraception issues: not only did they provide enough state funding for FPP to continue running for the next few years without federal aid, they passed a bill recently requiring all health insurance companies operating within the state to pay for contraception and family planning visits.
You could just go to Planned Parenthood.
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