Over 100 countries, including most of those in Asia and Latin America, allow some forms of birth-control pills to be sold over the counter. This makes the US something of an outlier with regards to…
A French drugmaker wants to make its contraceptive the first of its kind for sale in the US, an over-the-counter birth-control product that would make bring the country up to speed with more than 100 others that make such pills accessible without a prescription.
“We are in a health-care crisis in this country and there is no better time than now to get behind this because it addresses a real-time need,” said Monica Simpson, the executive director of the reproductive-justice group SisterSong and a steering committee member of the Free the Pill advocacy coalition.
Birth control and abortion are both “parts of the overall tools that people need to be able to exercise their reproductive freedom,” said Megan Kavanaugh, a senior research scientist with the Guttmacher Institute. “We need to make sure we have all of these options for healthcare that people need to achieve their full respective lives.”
The US regulatory process and politics have delayed clearing over-the-counter birth-control pills, Guttmacher’s Kavanaugh said. The same forces stood in the way of the adoption of the emergency contraceptive Plan B, she said. Health advocates and contraception opponents fought for more than a decade over nonprescription status for Plan B, a battle that finally ended in 2013 when the product moved out from behind the counter.
“Our coalition is committed very squarely to an afford a birth-control pill over the counter that’s affordable, covered by insurance without needing a prescription, and available to people of all ages,” Blanchard said.
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