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The campaign group Emergency Contraceptives at Pharmacies Project has urged the health ministry to make the pill available fully and rapidly in all drugstores without restrictions.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2023

Contraceptives like birth control pills are FSA-eligible with a prescription.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022

Contraceptives are used by 88% of U.S. women of childbearing age who are not trying to get pregnant, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy group.

From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2022

Contraceptives are also not very profitable medicines, so there is little incentive to push for making them available over the counter.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2022

Contraceptives by the time and circumstance of their application involve prudence and control.

From Love—Marriage—Birth Control Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at Birmingham, October, 1921 by Dawson, Bertrand Edward Dawson, Viscount