77%

Percentage of more than 3,000 survey [PDF] respondents who said they believe that private medical insurance should cover the costs of birth control pills, according to NPR and Thomson Reuters; 74% said they believe government-sponsored insurance should cover the pill as well. An even greater proportion of respondents — 78% — said they believe that the government should subsidize family planning (not including abortions) for lower-income families. The findings suggest that recent legislative efforts to reduce or abolish funding for Parenthood and other federally supported family planning services do not reflect prevailing attitudes about contraception in the U.S. [via NPR]