The rollout is underway for Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the United States, and online sales began Monday morning.Consumers
The rollout is underway for Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the United States, and online sales began Monday morning.
Earlier this month, the first shipments of Opill were sent to distributors, major drug stores and pharmacies - but as those shipments make their way through the distribution pipeline, it can take days to weeks before customers are able to get their hands on the product. "The biggest population that will benefit from this are those who have limited access to contraception in the first place. There are a lot of people in our country that live in what we would call contraceptive deserts, and these are areas where they have limited to no access to a reproductive health care provider, meaning they'd have to drive really far away to be able to access a provider, or they may not have access to a pharmacy close by," Oelschlager said.
"Of course, it's also really important to have pharmacies and physical locations where other folks who need to overcome the barrier of the prescription requirements can get that over-the-counter option and maybe even interface with a pharmacist if they want to," she said. "There's no requirement that they need to do that, but it's great to have as many options as available for people.
"We are concerned about access to all forms of sexual reproductive health care. So of course the Dobbs decision directly impacted abortion access, but we've seen evidence that it has trickled out and impacted sexual and reproductive health care, and contraceptive care," said Kavanaugh, who testified at a FDA public hearing last year in support of approving Opill without an age restriction.
Some states may try to enforce age restrictions on Opill, Dr. Vineeta Gupta, executive director for the nonprofit the Network for Public Health Law, said in an email.
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