Posted on 07/13/2023 7:29:15 AM PDT by devane617
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the oral contraceptive Opill for over-the-counter sales, making it the first hormonal contraceptive pill available in the U.S. without a prescription.
The approval is a major win for medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which have been pushing for years for an over-the-counter (OTC) birth control pill. It also comes amid legal battles over women’s reproductive rights.
"This is a monumental decision," said Dr. Melissa Simon, a professor of clinical gynecology at Northwestern University. "OTC birth control is available in over 100 countries, so we've been behind in availing safe, effective methods such as this oral contraceptive pill to individuals who are trying to avoid pregnancy."
Opill, also known as the "mini-pill," contains one hormone, progestin, and is taken daily. It was first approved by the FDA as a prescription in 1973.
The FDA said it is approving the over-the-counter version for all users of reproductive age, including teenagers, a move that is expected to remove barriers to access and reduce the risk of unintended pregnancies.
Almost half of the 6.1 million pregnancies in the U.S. each year are unintended, according to the FDA.
“When used as directed, daily oral contraception is safe and is expected to be more effective than currently available nonprescription contraceptive methods in preventing unintended pregnancy," Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a release.
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Next step - freely dispensed in all school and highschool and college dorms.
Over-the-counter birth control.
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Is that anything like On-The-Pool-Table birth control?
To all genders.
Planned Parent-less Hood will go bankrupt..................
No, they will like it because it will kill the kid and many of the mothers. This agenda of death can get them what they want too. Dead people.
FDA approval no longer means safe and effective.
About one year after the Roe was overturned a new pill gets approved, very convenient don’t you think??
I wonder if we could have another Thalidomide situation available to the public
No, they won’t protest it because this is effectively an over-the-counter abortion pill as well. It’s one of their strategies to funnel abortions to women in states where it is illegal, like some twisted, backwards underground railroad.
Planned Parenthood has about as much to do with parenting as Stacey Abrams has to do with anemia.
Progestin is a pregnancy hormone.
Telling your body that you’re pregnant when you’re not is why we’ve seen a huge uptick in breast cancer in null-parous women.
“huge uptick in breast cancer in null-parous women.”
I presume this is on the FDA warning like on tobacco products.
BIG NOT !!
I wonder what ingredients are in this pill. Will it be birth control and morning after pill all in one.
I’m sure these hormones are way safer than Ivermectin.
But no OTC HRT.
Go figure.
An uptick in breast cancer rates may have as much or more to do with viral STDs, but Big Med and Big Pharma won’t go there, either.
They’ll probably give it to girls in grade school, too. Why wait until they start their periods?
Birth Control pills have been freely dispensed on college campuses for the last 50 years.
I don’t think so. 50 years? No way. They were not around in the 1980s or the 1990s.
“I don’t think so. 50 years? No way. They were not around in the 1980s or the 1990s.”
Birth Control Pills were not around in the 1980’s or 1990’s?
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