CHARLOTTE, NC -- Women and girls as young as 13 years old can now get birth control online in North Carolina, without going to the doctor or requiring parental consent.
The birth control delivery app, Nurx, was recently launched in our state and is already causing controversy.
“We just have so much evidence that young people are having sex whether we want them to or not,” said Dr. Jessica Knox, medical director for Nurx.
“We have younger patients who haven't been able to access birth control otherwise because their parents aren't comfortable talking about birth control with them," Dr. Knox said.
It doesn’t cost anything to use, you just answer a few medical questions inside the app.
The birth control is then shipped for free right to the patient’s door.
The cost of the birth control is the same as what you’d pay for at a pharmacy. »
