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Much of Texas is a contraceptive desert. The state has a number of other policies (eg. parental consent required for minors to access birth control, poor fundi

Much of Texas is a contraceptive desert. The state has a number of other policies (eg. parental consent required for minors to access birth control, poor funding for reproductive health clinics, poor general health care in many places) that make even access to ordinary birth control difficult: https://powertodecide.org/what-we-do/contraceptive-deserts https://powertodecide.org/what-we-do/contraceptive-deserts If you are affluent, you won't have a problem, but if you are affluent you also won't have a problem traveling to California for an abortion either. Low-income women have a lot of economic and geographic barriers to finding effective contraception.

SauciestGNU 3y ago
And don't forget that conservatives are targeting Griswold v Connecticut (the Supreme Court case legalizing contraceptives), and conservative justices on the Supreme Court have claimed it was wrongfully decided. It's very likely that the Court will allow states to criminalize contraceptives, if not outright ban them throughout the entire United States.