Pharmacies now can offer birth control to women without a prescription, but few do
by Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times
Dec 13, 2017
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES â A new law in California allows women to pick up birth control pills from pharmacies without a doctor's prescription.
But more than a year after the law took effect, women say they're still struggling to get the medicines, in part because they can't find pharmacies offering them.
A study released Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. found that only 11 percent of pharmacies in
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