Birth control delivery app Nurx has started providing contraceptives to women in Texas without access to a sexual health clinic. The at-home service is based on mail order delivery. Most of Texas falls below the standard of one clinic for every 1,000 women due to its large sparsely populated areas, 'a contraceptive desert'. As a result, some 54% of pregnancies were unplanned in Texas in 2015, costing taxpayers $$2.14 billion, according to Nurx data. These figures could rise as Trump's recently passed Religious Freedom order enables businesses to deny birth control coverage based on religious considerations, potentially starving publicly-funded clinics.
Birth control delivery app Nurx has started providing contraceptives to women in Texas without access to a sexual health clinic. The at-home service is based on mail order delivery. Most of Texas falls below the standard of one clinic for every 1,000 women due to its large sparsely populated areas, 'a contraceptive desert'. As a result, some 54% of pregnancies were unplanned in Texas in 2015, costing taxpayers $2.9bn, according to Nurx data. These figures could rise as Trump's recently passed Religious Freedom order enables businesses to deny birth control coverage based on religious considerations, potentially starving publicly-funded clinics.