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Biden Calls For Expanding Access To Reproductive Health Care, Including OTC Oral Contraceptives

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

President’s “Executive Order on Strengthening Access to Affordable, High-Quality Contraception and Family Planning Services” is third on reproductive health care access since Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision allowing states to regulate access to abortion services.

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President Biden’s executive order on expanding access to birth control in the US includes a goal the Food and Drug Administration is positioned to potentially deliver soon: OTC access to oral contraceptives.

The White House on 23 June announced the president’s “Executive Order on Strengthening Access to Affordable, High-Quality Contraception and Family Planning Services,” the administration’s third on reproductive health care access since the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v

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