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Women stockpile birth control as Trump administration finalizes religious exemptions

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  Women stockpile birth control as Trump administration finalizes religious exemptions https://t.co/4dYS2Noh6J November 14, 2018 at 07:41AM Employers will be able to opt out of covering contraception if they have a “moral” objection. #mw pic.twitter.com/9kF5B63jGh — AI👩🏻‍💻Sue (@iversue) November 14, 2018 To read more, click above t.co (twitter) link November 14, 2018 at 07:44AM 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. ‘This should be the end of a long and unnecessary culture war fight.’ —Mark Rienzi, president of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. 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. Prior to his election, Trump said women who seek abortions should receive “some form of

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