This App Will Be a Game-Changer for Getting Birth Control without the ACA

If I told you there was a delivery app for birth control, you might disregard it as just another Silicon Valley-based subscription service, designed to excuse you from ever leaving your house again. But Nurx, which prescribes birth control online and mails it to users, isn't a boutique service for busy urbanites. It just might be a key player in blowing birth-control access wide open, especially as women's reproductive health becomes increasingly politicized in the U.S. The way Nurx works is simple: you register for a free account online, fill out a questionnaire of basic medical inquiries, exchange a few instant messages with a licensed doctor, and receive a package in the mail containing your birth-control method of choice. There are no consultation or delivery fees, so in most cases if you have insurance, it's free. If you don't have insurance, then you pay only for the cost of the medication itself.