Survey Shows US Voters Have Message For FDA And Congress About OTC Birth Control

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Data For Progress survey of 1,252 likely voters found “overwhelmingly support” from Democrats and Republicans for women’s access to daily oral contraceptives without a prescription and for FDA to allow OTC access.

Data For Progress survey asked likely voters this and similar questions in a survey conducted after the leak of a draft of a majority Supreme Court opinion allowing states to ban access to abortion services. • Source: Data For Progress

The Data for Progress and Contraceptive Access Initiative groups didn’t wait for the US Supreme Court to publish its leaked draft of a majority opinion allowing states to ban access to abortion services before asking consumers about expanding women’s access to contraceptives.

The leaked Supreme Court draft opinion “raised questions of accessibility to contraceptive options” and on “voters' support for one such...

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