The FDA considers first birth control pill without a prescription
The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to allow a birth control pill to be sold over the counter for the first time. An advisory committee opens a two-day hearing Tuesday.
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing women to get birth control pills in the U.S. without a prescription.
"It's a very exciting historic moment for contraceptive access," says Kelly Blanchard, who heads Ibis Reproductive Health, a nonprofit research group.
On Tuesday, the agency is convening a to help it decide what
