About 35% of the people at Notre Dame are employees, including the janitorial, grounds, cafeteria, and other low-wage earners for whom the cost of contraception could be prohibitive. Not everyone affected is some rich kid on their parents' policy, if such policy covers the contraception. The Pew Charitable Trust learned that nearly 446,000 women in Indiana  can't afford contraception, and that public clinics and Planned Parenthood can serve only about 30,000.  Some can't risk pregnancy (those getting chemo, radiation, or powerful psychotropics, for example, which disrupt hormones, making NFP impossible and risking damage to a fetus) or would have to forego essential treatment if one occurred. 

This decision makes it harder for those students and employees at ND who might deal with these problems.  ND seems to think that women cannot be trusted to make responsible moral decisions.  I guess only people with perfect health and circumstances should apply to study or work there.