{"id":11468,"date":"2023-08-16T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11468"},"modified":"2023-08-16T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:23:43","slug":"all-birth-control-pills-not-just-one-should-be-over-the-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11468","title":{"rendered":"All Birth Control Pills, Not Just One, Should Be Over the Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In a Cato Institute&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/white-paper\/drug-reformation-end-governments-power-require-prescriptions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">white paper<\/a>, Director of Health Policy Studies Michael F. Cannon and I&nbsp;pointed out that birth control pills are available in more than 100 countries without a prescription. In a January 2020<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/commentary\/birth-control-should-be-available-over-counter-how-congress-can-make-happen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;column, we explained that switching a&nbsp;drug from prescription-only to over-the-counter status typically causes its price to fall. But don&#8217;t expect prices for the mini pill to fall soon. Because the FDA will only allow women to purchase this one brand of mini pill without a prescription, it will be shielded from price competition by rival brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minors can buy lethal amounts of acetaminophen and ibuprofen without a prescription. Yet adult women must get a permission slip from another adult to exercise the right to contraceptive self-medication. And we other adults\u2014licensed health care clinicians\u2014think the requirement is preposterous.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rzFBSvZ3nI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/07\/14\/all-birth-control-pills-not-just-one-should-be-over-the-counter\/\">All Birth Control Pills, Not Just One, Should Be Over the Counter<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;All Birth Control Pills, Not Just One, Should Be Over the Counter&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/07\/14\/all-birth-control-pills-not-just-one-should-be-over-the-counter\/embed\/#?secret=1lcoAda9sn#?secret=rzFBSvZ3nI\" data-secret=\"rzFBSvZ3nI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a Cato Institute white paper, Director of Health Policy Studies Michael F. Cannon and I pointed out that birth control pills are available in more than 100 countries without a prescription. In a January 2020 Los Angeles Times column, we explained that switching a drug from prescription-only to over-the-counter status typically causes its price to fall. But don&#8217;t expect prices for the mini pill to fall soon. Because the FDA will only allow women to purchase this one brand of mini pill without a prescription, it will be shielded from price competition by rival brands.<br \/>\nMinors can buy lethal amounts of acetaminophen and ibuprofen without a prescription. Yet adult women must get a permission slip from another adult to exercise the right to contraceptive self-medication. And we other adults\u2014licensed health care clinicians\u2014think the requirement is preposterous.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1785],"class_list":["post-11468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-birth-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11469,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions\/11469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}