Alberta's NDP is promising to follow in the footsteps of B.C.'s NDP and make birth control free if it wins the next provincial election.
Party leader Rachel Notley made the commitment Wednesday morning – International Women's Day – calling provincially covered birth control "the kind of thing that's long overdue in terms of providing equitable access to health care to at least half of Alberta's population."
A little over a week ago, the B.C. government announced it would become the first province in Canada to make prescription contraceptives free beginning April 1. That province's program is budgeted to cost $119 million over the next three years.
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