The number of people in Texas accessing long term birth control through state-administered programs fell by over 20 percent for the second straight fiscal year in a row. Health care experts said the trend is concerning. Via HoustonChron
, and came as lawmakers were working to cut off access to abortion for nearly seven million Texans of reproductive age. IUDs and implants are more likely to prevent pregnancy than condoms and other shorter-term forms of contraception.
. Many women do not receive their preferred forms of contraception, and providers often can’t perform same-day insertions because of the high cost to stock the devices — IUDs can cost several hundred dollars apiece.Health researchers said it is too soon to know exactly what was behind the drop, but that it does not necessarily mean fewer people were accessing those forms of contraception.
“All we know is what was happening with the numbers,” White said. “We don’t necessarily know from a patient perspective how much of this was people switching methods, people newly adopting a method, which I think could impact people’s chances of getting pregnant if they didn’t want to be.” Texas lawmakers passed a six-week abortion ban last spring; it took effect Sept. 1 after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene. The high court has since overturned federal abortion protections, wiping out nearly all access in Texas.
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