Doctors don't do all that lab work and medical history stuff before prescribing the pill.
Because I had to go to a gyno once a year since I was about 19 until I went off the pill a few years after I was married so we could start producing little Borrachos. It was a quick hello, how are you feeling, okay do you want me to call it into Walgreens or CVS? And that was it.
That gyno was your regular doctor, in other words they knew you and your medical history, right?
Without question they should.
Simple enough question.
Making Birth Control available to women over the counter would even the playing field (we don't make men get a prescription and a prostrate exam to get condoms), and lower the costs of birth control. It's been that shifting to OTC BC would result in a 20–36% decrease in the number of women using no method or a method less effective than the pill, and a 7–25% decrease in the number of unintended pregnancies, something you'd think all sides can agree on.
And, generally, it seems most do. Only 26% of Americans oppose allowing Birth Control Pills to be sold over the counter, and 70% support it. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists support it.
However, it became a bit of an issue a while back when Sen Mark Udall was running the worlds-most-shark-jumping-war-on-women campaign against Senator Gardner, who has now introduced legislation calling for making OTC BC a legal reality.
So, where sits DP?
Simple enough question.
Making Birth Control available to women over the counter would even the playing field (we don't make men get a prescription and a prostrate exam to get condoms), and lower the costs of birth control. It's been that shifting to OTC BC would result in a 20–36% decrease in the number of women using no method or a method less effective than the pill, and a 7–25% decrease in the number of unintended pregnancies, something you'd think all sides can agree on.
And, generally, it seems most do. Only 26% of Americans oppose allowing Birth Control Pills to be sold over the counter, and 70% support it. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists support it.
However, it became a bit of an issue a while back when Sen Mark Udall was running the worlds-most-shark-jumping-war-on-women campaign against Senator Gardner, who has now introduced legislation calling for making OTC BC a legal reality.
So, where sits DP?
Hell yes. Heck, it might even make those opposed to health insurance covering the pill happy because as far as I know over the counters aren't covered by prescription plans.
Summerwind said:No, for two reasons, first there are medical implications to taking the pill not associated with condom use, so it needs to remain a medical issue
Secondly, by making it available over the counter, it demands that it be paid for independent of insurance which would make it financially out of reach for many women
No...
if birth control pills were used exclusively to prevent pregancy, I would say yes. However, they are used to treat woman's various hormone issues. i voted No.
Doctors don't do all that lab work and medical history stuff before prescribing the pill.
...in 2010, the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology found that 29 percent of doctors always required a pelvic exam before penning a prescription, while an additional 45 percent of them “usually” did so...
It looks like mostly men have voted but is there some medical reason that they should not be available over the counter?
So far I've seen A) Cost (which would both be reduced and still be covered under the ACA) and B) side effects (which all drugs have).
Because women would not seek a doctor who would prescribe the correct one and dosage.
So you think that women will be irresponsible and that you need to be responsible for their own good?
So you think that women will be irresponsible and that you need to be responsible for their own good?
It's just llke any other prescribed medicine. You need a doctor to prescribe the correct medicine and dosage. The doctor would also know the patient's health and give any warnings that need to be.
It looks like mostly men have voted but is there some medical reason that they should not be available over the counter?
Some reason why not?
Simple enough question.
Making Birth Control available to women over the counter would even the playing field (we don't make men get a prescription and a prostrate exam to get condoms), and lower the costs of birth control. It's been that shifting to OTC BC would result in a 20–36% decrease in the number of women using no method or a method less effective than the pill, and a 7–25% decrease in the number of unintended pregnancies, something you'd think all sides can agree on.
And, generally, it seems most do. Only 26% of Americans oppose allowing Birth Control Pills to be sold over the counter, and 70% support it. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists support it.
However, it became a bit of an issue a while back when Sen Mark Udall was running the worlds-most-shark-jumping-war-on-women campaign against Senator Gardner, who has now introduced legislation calling for making OTC BC a legal reality.
So, where sits DP?
Simple enough question.
Making Birth Control available to women over the counter would even the playing field (we don't make men get a prescription and a prostrate exam to get condoms), and lower the costs of birth control. It's been that shifting to OTC BC would result in a 20–36% decrease in the number of women using no method or a method less effective than the pill, and a 7–25% decrease in the number of unintended pregnancies, something you'd think all sides can agree on.
And, generally, it seems most do. Only 26% of Americans oppose allowing Birth Control Pills to be sold over the counter, and 70% support it. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists support it.
However, it became a bit of an issue a while back when Sen Mark Udall was running the worlds-most-shark-jumping-war-on-women campaign against Senator Gardner, who has now introduced legislation calling for making OTC BC a legal reality.
So, where sits DP?
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