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The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the birth control pill Opill to be available over-the-counter — the first nonprescription birth control pill in the United States. “Today’s approval marks the first time a nonprescription daily oral contraceptive will be an available option for millions of people in the United States,” Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, the director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a statement.
Apparently we're far behind other countries in doing it.
The US joins more than 100 countries around the world that have made the birth control pill available over the counter, including most countries in Latin America, as well as India, China and the United Kingdom.
Birth control has been over-the-counter in Oregon for several years now, thanks to Knute Buehler (R) who wrote the bill and pushed it through. Birth control has been available without a prescription in Oregon since 2016
I didn't know it wasn't a thing already...?
I mean, I've had to buy some Plan B before prior to getting my vasectomy. I'd have assumed if that's an over-the-counter thing, standard birth control would be?
You would have thought that this would have been a thing a long time ago....
If this were "a thing long time ago", the problem with abortions wouldn't be so big.
Based on available state-level data, approximately 961,000 abortions took place in the US in 2021,
930,160 abortions took place in the US in 2020
↑up from 862,320 in 2017.
The figures reported include only legal induced abortions conducted by clinics, hospitals or physicians’ offices, or those that make use of abortion pills dispensed from certified facilities such as clinics or physicians’ offices. They do not account for the use of abortion pills that were obtained outside of clinical settings.
So, you know that they are much higher.
That is kind of strange, since it is so common every where else. I live in Vancouver BC, and I heard of young women asking their GP's for birth control pills for their acne problem.
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