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Over The Counter Birth Control

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Finally, the Republicans do something smart:

Just this week, legislators introduced a bill that would encourage drug companies to apply to sell contraceptives without a prescription.

But if Republican Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, along with four other GOP senators, were expecting flowers from Planned Parenthood and others for their bill, the Allowing Greater Access to Safe and Effective Contraception Act, they should brace for disappointment. Suddenly, the idea doesn’t sound so great, and the former supporters aren’t mincing words.

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said the bill is a “sham and an insult to women.”

Karen Middleton of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado even got personal, saying, “Cory Gardner can’t be trusted when it comes to Colorado women and their health care.”

Why the about-face? Well, the story the libs are going with is that the bill will actually make the pill more expensive once it’s no longer prescription (and therefore not covered by insurance). Which would be a fair point if it were true.

As she notes, the Dems hate this because it knocks the legs out from under their “War on Women” scam.

7 thoughts on “Over The Counter Birth Control”

  1. No good reason to -stop- at OTC birth control either. Wander through the entire pharmacopoeia.

    I have prescription saline solution. Pure salt in water.

    1. I take the position that drugs and medical procedures should be categorized as unrestricted and uncertified until evidence is found to support otherwise. A drug demonstrated to be abusable, dangerous, or otherwise problematic may be restricted. Close analogy to an existing drug may be evidence for an initial categorization.

  2. I see two points on which the democrats might rationally (as in self interest) object to over the counter birth control:
    – Bam-care prescription drug coverage.
    – A way to wedge their “family planning” indoctrination centers into people’s lives.

    Neither strikes me as a good reason to oppose this plan.

  3. Has there ever been an instance of a prescription drug becoming an OTC drug and then becoming more expensive?

  4. Just wanted to point out that PP makes a lot of money off of birth control, and stands to lose most of that to Walgreens and Walmart.

  5. My first comment was eaten by the spam filter. The answer is a conditional yes because many insurance companies don’t pay for OTC medications.

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