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Lonestarblue

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14. I sent an email today to the head of the FDA asking for birth control pills to become OTC.
Fri May 6, 2022, 05:33 PM
May 2022

Birth control pills can be had without prescription in Oregon and California. Many other countries also allow birth control pills to sold over the counter. I suggested that there are no safety issues and only two possible objections: from religious extremists and from doctors who want to charge for an office call. With the religious extremists, there is also the harassment of unmarried women especially by pharmacists who refuse to fill a prescription because birth control violates their beliefs, thus forcing their beliefs on all women.

If you want to join me and demand that the FDA stop following religious beliefs and instead adhere to medical science, the director is Dr. Robert Califf, and his email is commissioner@fda.hhs.gov.

Many women, and poor people, do not have a primary care physician or indeed access to affordable health insurance, and while they may not be able to afford a doctor’s office call, they might be able to afford an OTC drug to prevent pregnancy, especially since in many red states, real health clinics have been closed to be replaced by fake Christian groups that do nothing but lie about contraception and reproductive choices.

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they've been equating birth control methods with abortion for decades that Cerridwen May 2022 #1
Yes. In 1968 I heard a Catholic priest wnylib May 2022 #2
That has always been the Catholic line. They fed me the same BS when I was 7th grade Ray Bruns May 2022 #17
I know that it has always been the Catholic line. wnylib May 2022 #18
Male castration works too! RKP5637 May 2022 #3
I could get behind that if it were applied to just notinkansas May 2022 #4
Tsk, tsk. Murdering sperm. wnylib May 2022 #5
"Every Sperm is Sacred" ymetca May 2022 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m May 2022 #11
Yep, OMG, killed the sperm machine!!! That, would be a lot of death sentences for the male and RKP5637 May 2022 #9
Imo, they're going to force white girls to have as many babies blueinredohio May 2022 #7
Black babies will be illegal, no black people can have kids. Oh, what about Mexicans, will they RKP5637 May 2022 #10
Eliminate all sperm and no contraceptive will ever cause an abortion (which is total nonsense anyway sinkingfeeling May 2022 #8
Yeah, stop the "deaths" at the source! 50% of fertilized eggs (aka "babies") die before the deurbano May 2022 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m May 2022 #12
I suspect they will move fast while they have their dream Court rurallib May 2022 #13
That will be a political mistake. wnylib May 2022 #19
I keep hearing that maxrandb May 2022 #29
I sent an email today to the head of the FDA asking for birth control pills to become OTC. Lonestarblue May 2022 #14
Thanks for the information. wnylib May 2022 #20
I don't give AF about where they wanna go, flying_wahini May 2022 #15
Thank you for posting this Racygrandma May 2022 #16
There are people in the middle who are not wnylib May 2022 #25
+1, uponit7771 May 2022 #22
They mean Abortifacients, like Plan B. maxsolomon May 2022 #23
And we need to make that point wnylib May 2022 #26
I've also learned that Muslims believe in Pre-Existence of Souls maxsolomon May 2022 #27
That early soul belief is current among some Christians, but not all. wnylib May 2022 #28
Barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchem Frances May 2022 #24
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