You'll now be able to get birth control without a prescription — but it won't hit store shelves until 2024
, which will let American women and girls buy contraceptive medication from a retail store without a prescription.
The company won't start shipping the pill until early next year, and there will be no age restrictions on sales.in the US, used by tens of millions of women since the 1960s. Until now, all of them required a prescription. Ireland-based Perrigo did not announce a price. Over-the-counter medicines are generally much cheaper than prescriptions, but they aren't covered by insurance.
But women's health advocates hope the decision will pave the way for more over-the-counter birth control options and, eventually, for abortion pills to do the same.. The studies in Perrigo's FDA application began years before the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade, which has upended abortion access across the US.typically combine two hormones, estrogen and progestin, which can help make periods lighter and more regular.
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