First over-the-counter birth control pill gets FDA approval
https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-over-counter-birth-control-123907296.html
U.S. officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, which will let American women and girls buy contraceptive medication from the same aisle as aspirin and eyedrops.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it cleared Perrigo’s once-a-day Opill to be sold without a prescription, making it the first such medication to be moved out from behind the pharmacy counter. The company won’t start shipping the pill until early next year, and there will be no age restrictions on sales.
Halle-fricking-lujah.
Wait for the Repubs to jump all over this one.
@vivify saidThat game is usually only played with prescription medications, since Big Pharma's foremost aim is to jack moola from health insurance companies, and not so much from individual consumers (who nevertheless become collateral damage). It's the insurance companies that soak the consumers.
Possibly; but I'm also concerned about drug companies hiking up the price to unaffordable levels.
Republicans will try to ban it, with possibly some success in some of the Christo-fascist Taliban states like Texas or Idaho.
The no-age restriction and over-the-counter means that girls who hit puberty can start taking it right away, without their parents knowing about it. Expect Republican states to at least make it so the pharmacy HAS to notify parents when girls buy this, effectively keeping girls from using it.
@vivify saidI ain't jumpin all over it. The corps can charge what they want, and people should be glad they live in America. If they are unaffordable, so are eggs. What are you trying to say? What a loser post. Next you will be carrying one of those queer signs in front of the corps that they should charge what you want them to charge.
Possibly; but I'm also concerned about drug companies hiking up the price to unaffordable levels.
I applaud this. Finally, some good news.
Uhhhh, I won't have my taxes go towards any of this, will I? And for the record, I hope they will charge what they can get for the pills.
@soothfast saidThen don't buy the insurance, or find another insurance company. Funny how I am satisfied with my insurance company, I love them. What have they done to piss you off?
That game is usually only played with prescription medications, since Big Pharma's foremost aim is to jack moola from health insurance companies, and not so much from individual consumers (who nevertheless become collateral damage). It's the insurance companies that soak the consumers.
Republicans will try to ban it, with possibly some success in some of the Christo-fascist Taliban states like Texas or Idaho.
@AverageJoe1
RIght, what REALLY gets your goat is the fact that abortions will go down so the death of Roe V Wade will be less of an issue. So it sounds like you are REALLY ticked kids can have sex without worrying about getting pregnant.
THAT is what ticks you off, isn't it? NO SEX WITHOUT REPRODUCTION is your mantra, right?
@sonhouse saidThis is my position, since you asked. I think the pills should be free, given our atmosphere of recreational sex. A pill is a lot cheaper than an abortion. Let these loose people have a pitiful non-rewarding existence, I do not care. Let them vote democrat.
@AverageJoe1
RIght, what REALLY gets your goat is the fact that abortions will go down so the death of Roe V Wade will be less of an issue. So it sounds like you are REALLY ticked kids can have sex without worrying about getting pregnant.
THAT is what ticks you off, isn't it? NO SEX WITHOUT REPRODUCTION is your mantra, right?
I do not want to pay for the abortion of people who make bad choices. I am firmly convinced that those who get pregnant want to get pregnant...............or, they would not. You like the bloody abortions of babies, Sonhouse, and I don't mean 'bloody' like those curious English use it. Would you do one? A yes or no?
@averagejoe1 saidBut you surely are aware, due to your acute business acumen, that an abortion is cheaper than having a ward of the state for 16-18 yrs or subsidising a whole family because a, or the only, breadwinner is out of the game due to maternity and parenting duties.
This is my position, since you asked. I think the pills should be free, given our atmosphere of recreational sex. A pill is a lot cheaper than an abortion. Let this loose people have a pitiful non-rewarding existence, I do not care. Let them vote democrat.
I do not want to pay for the abortion of people who make bad choices. I am firmly convinced that those who ge ...[text shortened]... nhouse, and I don't mean 'bloody' like those curious English use it. Would you do one? A yes or no?
@kevcvs57 saidYes, I am aware. Read my post again. Take the pill, don't get pregnant.
But you surely are aware, due to your acute business acumen, that an abortion is cheaper than having a ward of the state for 16-18 yrs or subsidising a whole family because a, or the only, breadwinner is out of the game due to maternity and parenting duties.
Do you think Sonhouse, if he knew the procedure, would perform an abortion? And aren't you and Shav, et al, saying they are not babies, they are fetuses? So you say to a woman...I see you are going to have a fetus, or may I feel the fetus kicking?
OK, bring us another lie.
@mott-the-hoople saidThey're going to anyways, pinhead. Better to keep them safe from unwanted pregnancies. Or do you secretly WANT more kids being taken care of by the state? Don't be a hypocrite.
oh joy, now the kids can fuk like ninjas
@mott-the-hoople saidHopefully. Life is short. May they and everyone enjoy it as much as possible.
oh joy, now the kids can fuk like ninjas