The freedom to use one’s preferred contraceptive method—or no method—is fundamental to reproductive autonomy, which is a particularly salient issue for disabled people, who face substantial barriers to person-centered contraceptive care while also being subjected to interference in reproductive decision making.
As more young people experience COVID-19-related disability, and in a political environment that is increasingly hostile to reproductive health care, policy change on a national scale is needed. Alongside explicit protections against interference in contraceptive decision making, Medicare coverage of all contraceptive methods without cost sharing is needed to support the reproductive autonomy of people with disabilities.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00286