Nonetheless, I still say it should be made over the counter:
All this said, yes, please do make the Pill over the counter. Perhaps when it sits beside Tylenol on a drugstore shelf, advocacy groups will stop yammering on about how the Pill is a major component of women’s rights. Or that it is patronizing when doctors show concern. Perhaps then we will stop targeting excellent doctors who won’t prescribe it for very good reasons.
Which gets interpreted by Huff Post commentators as meaning I want to reduce access to all contraception. If you are pro-woman and pro-life, please feel free to leave a reasonable comment, for or against the Pill (so that Huff Post folks can misinterpret and distort what you say, sigh.)
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You’ve changed your tune as to whether or not the Pill should be made available over the counter. What caused you to change your mind?
Largely conscience rights for doctors, but I’ll do a bigger response later.
I’m looking forward to your response, because I’m torn on this issue. When push comes to shove, the Pill isn’t Tylenol or Aspirin. It seriously changes how a woman’s body functions. And I worry about the fourteen and fifteen yr olds who would have access to this drug without being under a doctor’s supervision.
I also have mixed feelings about making self-referral available for a procedure or drug, in order to circumvent a doctor having to violate his conscience. That’s one of te reasons we have self-referral for abortions, and I don’t think it is in a patient’s best interest to be able to self-refer for such a life-altering procedure.
Still thinking this one through…