Doctors urge FDA to approve over-the-counter access to birth control

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The push for more access to birth control comes as the nation waits for a Supreme Court ruling that could upend abortion rights in more than half the states.

Norma McCorvey, using the pseudonym "Jane Roe," undertook a legal challenge that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in 1973 that legalized abortion nationwide.

The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest medical group, is calling on the FDA to make birth control available without a prescription as states prepare for the potential end of federally protected"Providing patients with OTC access to the birth control pill is an easy call from a public health perspective as the health risks of pregnancy vastly outweigh those of oral contraceptive use," said AMA Board Member Dr. David H. Aizuss.

 

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