AccessBC, which lobbied for the policy, began as a two-person bull session in a Saanich kitchen seven years ago
When prescription contraceptives become free starting April 1, it will be the culmination of an effort begun seven years ago by a grassroots group called AccessBC that had its start in a Vancouver Island kitchen as a back-of-the-envelope rough idea.
He contacted his longtime friend Devon Black, today a Victoria-area lawyer who was still in high school when she was Phelps Bondaroff’s communications manager for his run at Parliament in 2006. Black was on the Islands Sexual Health Society board and an experienced reproductive-justice advocate. “We started off as a group working around my kitchen table and now we have all these volunteers,” he said.
Dr. Ruth Habte, AccessBC’s campaign organizer, is a pharmacist-cum-physician doing her residency at UBC in the department of obstetrics and gynecology. Through both fields, in the dispensary and the doctor’s office, she saw women every day who were unable to access the contraception they needed. About half of all pregnancies are unplanned, she said, and unintended pregnancies that result in miscarriage or abortion carry costs to taxpayers. Miso pills, covered by MSP, can be $200, while delivering a baby can run upwards of $10,000, depending on whether there are complications.
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