More than 60 years after the approval of oral contraceptives revolutionized women’s sexual health, the Food and Drug Administration has received its first application for a birth control pill sold over the counter — just as the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has put access to contraception more squarely at the heart of the clash over reproductive rights.
A Paris-based company, HRA Pharma, announced on Monday that it had asked the F.D.A. to authorize its pill, which is available by prescription, for over-the-counter-sales in the United States. Cadence Health, another pill manufacturer that has been in close dialogue with the F.D.A. about switching its pill to over-the-counter status, said it hopes to move closer to submitting an application in the coming year.
The timing of HRA Pharma’s F.D.A. application, just weeks after the Supreme Court decision, is “a really sad coincidence,” said Frédérique Welgryn, the company’s chief strategic and innovations officer. “Birth control is not a solution for abortion access,” she said.
Under ordinary circumstances, filing an application to sell a prescription drug over the counter might go unnoticed in Washington.
Insurance companies do not pay for OTC drugs.
jus’ sayin’
Leave it to the liberals at the NYT to conflate the SC decision on RvW with the availability of contraceptives. Thirty years ago I always thought NYT readers were smart. Now I’m convinced that if you still read the NYT you truly are a non thinking drone
When are these “medical” “professionals” going to treat my need, my yearning, my lost economic potential!? For auto-erotic asphyxiation? I don’t wanna’ end up like Kung Fu guy! Holy Mother State! Deliver me from boredom!
fnuck is off his meds again.
^^^ or back on them…
Actually, birth control IS THE solution for most abortion access needs.
It only leaves the victims of rape or incest and the critically ill pregnant women still in possible need of abortion. Y’know, the sad cases that were originally cited when proponents of abortion argued that it should be safe, legal, and RARE. The rest of the adults –women and men– should plan ahead.
paywall =(
This will be moot when the next generation of children is convinced that they all need to switch genders under a surgeon’s scalpel.
No worries; no pregnancies; the end of population.
My insurance company pays for my OTC aspirin, because I have a prescription.
Making it legal to sell oral contraception to unmarried women was the top of the slippery slope, leading ultimately to spaying and neutering our children.