Do birth control pills really need to be prescription drugs?
What’s Canada waiting for to make “The Pill” more accessible?
The debate about making birth control pills an over-the-counter medication is also informative, one that Canada can learn from, and hopefully use to act swiftly.use hormonal contraceptives at some point during their reproductive lives – and about one in eight at any given time. The pill has been around for more than six decades. It’s quite a safe drug, and has become safer over time as levels of hormones in the pills have decreased. It’s also easy to use: Take one pill daily at roughly the same time.
But there are similar contraindications for other OTC drugs. It’s something most consumers can handle. Abortion was not fully decriminalized in Canada until 1988, two decades after birth control, and it took a Supreme Court ruling to do so. Affordability is an important part of the access question, one that has been a key part of the U.S. debate about the OTC status of Opill.
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