From the Magazine: Emergency birth control can be tough to find at some colleges. Through a group called Emergency Contraception for Every Campus, these students have taken matters into their own hands.
that needed to be reviewed, but also cases likewhich sanctioned birth control for married couples and was later used as the basis for its more widespread legalization.
EC4EC was dreamed up more as a tool kit than a movement. It was meant to answer the deluge of questions that Kelly Cleland — who runs the nonprofit American Society for Emergency Contraception, which advocates for access and coordinates collaboration between advocates and providers — started to receive around 2017, when national news outlets began picking up local stories about a wave of college campuses installing vending machines that dispensed Plan B.
And so, while Cleland and Brogan continued to champion vending machines at amenable universities, the pair formulated a lower-tech alternative: a peer-to-peer distribution network, built on the hunch that students would trust their peers to provide them with the pills at low or no cost. Cleland reasoned that a human infrastructure could be established and maintained, even though students are transient presences on college campuses.
In 2021, someone raised the issue of the morning-after pill in a meeting. Previous student leaders had wanted to distribute it, but momentum had stalled, and setting up a structure to do it had proved daunting. Someone needed to lead the effort. Beaudouin looked around and saw no takers. “I was like, ‘I’ll do it.’ ”
The process is not much more complicated than getting Domino’s delivered. But it is a far more profound experience. This generation of students has been raised in a world ofthat even beginning to address them can feel impossible. When EZ EC organizer Skylar Kanine volunteered to do this work, the scale was part of the appeal. It has made her feel like she can make an actual difference in the lives of people she knows.
“It is a prime target,” explains Mara Gandal-Powers, the director of birth control access and senior counsel for reproductive rights and health at the women’s law center. “We see folks conflating birth control with abortion, and EC is on the front lines of that.”
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