Women stockpiling birth control as Trump administration finalizes insurance rules
Source: MarketWatch
Women stockpiling birth control as Trump administration finalizes insurance rules
Published: Nov 15, 2018 12:14 p.m. ET
Employers will be able to opt out of covering contraception if they have a moral objection
By KARI PAUL
REPORTER
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, many women and reproductive rights activists were worried about what his presidency would mean for family planning services like abortion and birth control. ... Some started took matters into their own hands.
Melanie Roven, a 29-year-old brand director in New York City, began stockpiling Plan B, an over-the-counter emergency birth control, early in Trump’s campaign for president, she told MarketWatch. ... “It was kind of a joke at first, but as he started forming policy ideas I realized I should actually do this,” she said.
Plan B has a shelf life of up to four years and retails for around $50. Roven now has five boxes sitting in her bathroom. (Another emergency birth control, Take Action, retails for $35.)
Roven also got an intrauterine device (IUD) shortly after Trump’s election, a form of birth control that lasts from three to six years, out of concern for her future access to reproductive care.
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Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/women-stockpile-birth-control-as-trump-administration-finalizes-religious-exemptions-2018-11-14
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