As lot more stuff should be sold over the counter. Soon you will have to wait for months for simple medical care (I think you may know why) and you may have to fend for yourself.

Yes . . . more mortal sin is clearly the answer. Yesssss.....

I dunno, like some others here i am starting to re-think my position on contraceptives. I certainly don´t want the Sandra Flukes of the world reproducing.

First gal who has a blood clot or stroke and maybe they rethink it.

Over the counter medications are not covered by insurance, and they cannot be reimbursed by some flex spending account. This may be a way for insurance companies to avoid paying for contraceptives.

How ´bout stop dropping your skirt for the Easter Bunny and crossing your legs once in a while? Or would that interfere with your "hookups" with guys you´ve never met?

Hey I´ve hot a better idea. Stop PAYING for unwanted pregnancies.

I may break with the herd here, but the conservative part of me favors having more OTC products. Aspirin and Tylenol are both quite deadly things, yet we can buy them OTC. Prescriptions drive up medical costs and some of the drugs we now buy now (like allergy medicines and acid reflux drugs) were once available only via prescription. Unless there is a compelling safety reason to restrict access, I favor the OTC route.

For decades we´ve heard "my body, my choice" and if that choice is to take the Pill without first visiting a doctor, so be it.

And, I do think it would cut down on unplanned pregnancies and abortions. High school and college women who won´t go to an ob/gyn will still have sex so why not make the best contraceptives OTC?

Sure - what else can we do to shrink our demographic. The Muslims won´t mind.

The side effects of the pill are horrendous and when the patient is not properly screened deadly!!

I have no problem with making birth control more available... But let´s be real, it´s very available now....

There are a number of medications that should be moved from prescription to over the counter. It´s a little unusual to see a physicians group like the ACOG advocating for it.

The use of contraceptives have actually increased unplanned pregnancy and abortion. It creates a contraceptive mentality and any pregnancy is viewed as a "failure" and something that should be suppressed. What could go wrong letting 12 year old girls or the adult boyfriends of those girls buy contraceptives over the counter? Let´s just remove parental authority even more in this society because it has led to such good results right?

If you are not old enough or capable enough to arrange for contraception through the myriad sources already available, you should not be engaging in sexual activity.

This article cites "unwanted pregnancy" as the primary reason. That is not due a lack of access, but a lack of responsibility and understanding of consequences.

Then who are we going to sue for a (possible) adverse consequence? I know, make all physicians pay an annual mandatory fee, like the neurologic birth injury fee all physicians have to pay even if they don´t deliver babies (but not as much as OBGYN´s are dunned), simply because they are physicians, and by definition, filthy rich.
The only medical group still actually representing physicians that I know of is the AAPS, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. The rest are extensions of the AMA and "government health care", which is an oxymoron.

Then they can pay for it.

When certain individuals cannot or do not accept the consequences and responsibility for their own actions, the everyone must pay for them. Which is a violation upon those who DO accept the consquences and resposibility.

The federal government is violating my rights!

Then they should put their money where their genitals are and pay for it themselves.

Good idea! Definitely a step in the right direction. More contraceptive use = a lot fewer abortions, not to mention a lot fewer "unwanted" children.

Sure don´t have any proof that more access has reduced birthrates. 1960´s saw 5% unwed moms, so 50+ yrs of sex ed. & accessible birth control & abortion on demand saw it rise to over 40% of children born to single moms, nearly guaranteeing a life of poverty. Idiots giving more lighter fluid to the arsonists.

This news should make Sandra Fluke happy.

Now, she can skip the trip and co-pay to the doc and just head over to get the free Obamacare birth control!

"I´ll take ´Ideas as Stupid as Giving Whiskey and Car Keys to Teenage Boys´ for $200, Alex."

Here´s the thing with going to the doctor to get your birth control prescriptions: it forces you to get a yearly exam. And, yes, women do need yearly exams (I happen to think men should go yearly for a prostate exam, as well) because when things happen, they happen fast. And there are no symptoms until it´s too late.

And let´s not even mention the fact that putting hormones in your body is serous business. And then there´s the self-medicating aspect where people make moronic mistakes all the time.

This is just a bad idea. Birth control in the form of condoms (also helpful in avoiding STDs) is available over the counter. What´s wrong with that?

Years ago, my son was prescribed Claritin, and it cost us a $10 copay. Then they made it OTC, and it cost us $25. So I say go for it!

Won´t make any difference. Those women want to get pregnant.

"Yes . . . more mortal sin is clearly the answer. Yesssss....."

I´m married and don´t want more children, so, mortal sin ... seriously?

How ´bout stop dropping your skirt for the Easter Bunny and crossing your legs once in a while? Or would that interfere with your "hookups" with guys you´ve never met?

I´m MARRIED and don´t want to be pregnant again. My husband is my only partner, so, "hookups," reeealllly?