November 22, 2024

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Alexandra Hill has known for years that she doesn’t want to have children. The 35-year-old, who lives with her boyfriend in Connecticut, told me she’s tried different forms of birth control in the past, including condoms and birth-control pills. Earlier this year, she started taking the over-the-counter contraceptive pill, Opill, which she likes because of its minimal side effects.

Then Donald Trump was reelected. “Now I’m concerned, even though I’m in a blue state,” Hill told me. “My first thought was, I should stock up on as much as I can. But I’m also trying to think ahead — what if that is not possible?” Rather than risk uncertain availability of the pill in the years ahead, Hill found a Connecticut surgeon who accepts her insurance and scheduled a January 16 consultation for a bilateral salpingectomy — a sterilization procedure in which the Fallopian tubes are removed. “I also requested to be put on a cancellation list in the hope of getting an earlier appointment,” she told me.

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