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State ‘Workarounds’ To Expand Birth Control Access Leave Work For OTC Sales To Complete

 
• By Hannah Daniel and Malcolm Spicer

In pharmacy-access for contraceptives states began allowing in 2016, “there is still a gatekeeper. A male doesn't have to get have a gatekeeper when he wants to buy contraception, but a female does,” says Arizona surgeon Jeffrey Singer, an advocate for making more drugs available OTC.

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“Workarounds” implemented in in 16 states and Washington, DC, through pharmacy-access laws allowing pharmacists’ distribution expands access oral contraceptives but not to the extent that OTC sales would provide.

“A number of states have come up with workarounds since the state legislatures have the ability to determine the scope of practice of the various health care professions that they license,” said Jeffrey Singer, president emeritus and founder of Valley Surgical Clinics Ltd

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