Thanks to the 2016 presidential election and the changes in reproductive health policy that are likely to follow, 26-year-old Elizabeth Harvey will no longer face the daily hassle of remembering to take her birth control pill.
“I sometimes forget to take the pill before work in the morning, and then I need to remind myself to take it later,” Harvey said, echoing the sentiments of the 9.7 million American women who use a pill for contraception. “Now that my access to contraception is going to be severely limited, I’ll never have a day when I doubt whether or not I took the pill already.”
Harvey also said that she will be glad to no longer need to pick up her monthly refill once her local Planned Parenthood clinic is forced to shut down. “I always hate sitting in the waiting area,” Harvey said.
Even if she is not totally stripped of her reproductive rights in the coming months, Harvey is still hopeful that, at the very least, she will soon not need to worry about calculating the insurance co-pay for her prescription. As she put it, “When my insurance plan stops covering contraception, I’ll just pay the sticker price.”
At press time, Harvey remembered that she will probably just lose her health coverage altogether, meaning that she will no longer need to spend time filling out complicated insurance forms.
– LT ’19
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