{"id":2219040,"date":"2024-04-11T23:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill-provides-a-pro-life-pro-capitalist-alternative-to-the-contraception-mandate\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T23:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:45:45","slug":"an-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill-provides-a-pro-life-pro-capitalist-alternative-to-the-contraception-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill-provides-a-pro-life-pro-capitalist-alternative-to-the-contraception-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"An OTC birth control pill offers a pro-life, pro-capitalist option to the contraception requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fan-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill-provides-a-pro-life-pro-capitalist-alternative-to-the-contraception-mandate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2219040&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The progestin-only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-exactly-happens-in-chinese-concentration-camps\/\" title=\"What Exactly Happens In Chinese Concentration Camps?\">birth control pill<\/a>\u2062 Opill marks a\u2063 milestone\u200c with\u2062 a nationwide OTC status, offering\u2063 affordable and accessible contraception. Retailers like Amazon and Walmart list it at $16 per month, making it a pro-life and pro-capitalist solution.\u2063 Opill&#8217;s OTC availability\u200d and \u200bpricing benefit \u2062uninsured women, \u2062potentially reducing abortion rates and\u200c empowering women&#8217;s health choices. The \u200cprogestin-only birth \u2063control pill Opill achieves a significant milestone with nationwide over-the-counter status, providing affordable and accessible contraception.\u2064 Retailers such as Amazon and \u2064Walmart offer it at $16 per month, presenting\u200c a pro-life and \u2062pro-capitalist approach. Opill&#8217;s \u200davailability and pricing cater \u2063to uninsured women, potentially decreasing abortion rates \u2063while empowering women to\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-yields-to-legal-pressure-resumes-drug-price-transparency-enforcement\/\" title=\"Biden yields, resumes drug price transparency enforcement.\">make informed health decisions<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>More than six decades after Norgestrel was patented, the progestin-only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/birth-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>birth control pill<\/a> has debuted on drug store shelves and online as Opill. It\u2019s the first oral contraceptive in the country granted nationwide over-the-counter status by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Food and Drug Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Already, retailers such as Amazon, Target, CVS, and Walmart have listed a three-month supply of Opill for roughly $16 per month. Its price points and availability prove that deregulating birth control, rather than the Affordable Care Act\u2019s legally dubious contraception mandate, is a pro-life, pro-capitalist, and pro-religious liberty solution to the persistent demand for abortion.<\/p>\n<p>While the ACA did coincide with a marked reduction in the nation\u2019s abortion rate, it wasn\u2019t because of the contraception mandate\u2019s demand that private insurers pay for oral contraception, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/940412\/better-contraception-contributed-to-americas-lowest-post-roe-abortion-rate\/\" title>which was not increasingly used after the mandate<\/a>. Instead, the mandate led to a 23% increase in long-acting reversible contraception, largely hormonal and copper IUDs, which have near-zero failure rates.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>(Illustration by Tatiana Lozano \/ Washington Examiner; Getty Images, Gina M Randazzo \/ ZUMA Press Wire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But because the mandate prohibited cost sharing with insured patients, totally elastic demand for oral contraception led to list prices nearly doubling from when the ACA went into effect in 2014 to 2020, compared to a 40% increase in prescription drug prices and a 10% increase in over-the-counter drug prices.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of women in the country were insulated from the economic ramifications of the contraception mandate by their insurers, but nearly 10 million women who lack insurance were not. On top of the out-of-pocket expenses for a physician\u2019s visit to obtain a prescription for oral contraceptives, uninsured women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodrx.com\/conditions\/birth-control\/annual-cost-of-birth-control\" title>reported<\/a> paying an average of $268 per year on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-got-tired-of-tripping-over-women-in-bathrooms-with-hangers-in-their-body-whoopi-goldberg-says-abortion-isnt-about-religion\/\" title=\"\u2018People Got Tired Of Tripping Over Women In Bathrooms With Hangers In Their Body\u2019: Whoopi Goldberg Says Abortion Isn\u2019t About Religion\">birth control pills<\/a> in a 2017 to 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.<\/p>\n<p>Already, Opill provides a solution. At $192 per year at Walmart and other national retailers, Opill provides uninsured women with a birth control pill at just 72% of the list price of the average. And because Opill doesn\u2019t require a prescription, uninsured women are also saved the copay required for a doctor\u2019s visit. Empirical economics indicate that prices will only go down from here.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019s prescription drug index increased by 20% from 2014 to the start of 2022 \u2014 that is, even before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-have-nothing-to-offer-voters-so-theyre-banking-on-smearing-and-censoring-their-opposition\/\" title=\"Democrats Have Nothing To Offer Voters So They\u2019re Banking On Smearing And Censoring Their Opposition\">worst inflationary crisis<\/a> in 40 years began in full \u2014 over-the-counter drug prices actually decreased by 2%. Some of the increase in prescription drug prices is necessary and justified. Just think of a drug like Ozempic that has a nominal list price near the thousands because Novo Nordisk must recoup potential tens of billions of dollars in research and development. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rosenfield-left-has-abandoned-health-care-as-human-right-for-unvaccinated\/\" title=\"Rosenfield: Left Has Abandoned Health Care as 'Human Right' for Unvaccinated\">hormonal birth control<\/a> is primed for the ideal OTC debut: It comes in plenty of decades-old formulations, and contrary to much of the misinformation on TikTok, it is safer than Tylenol.<\/p>\n<p>Consider that emergency contraception such as Plan B, which has a much higher hormone content than daily contraception pills, has been available over the counter for 11 years now. And whereas Plan B is only 89% effective when taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, Opill is 98% when taken every day within the same three-hour window. (Emergency contraception, like all forms of hormonal birth control, is incapable of aborting an extant, implanted pregnancy, but it has a failure rate more than five times greater than that of Opill.)<\/p>\n<p>For a second potential shot at the presidency, over-the-counter Opill could be just the start for Donald Trump. The former president, who has correctly embraced pro-life federalism, supporting only state-level bans with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/2052892\/yes-over-the-counter-birth-control-will-reduce-abortion-rates\/\" title>could focus his national efforts on diminishing demand for abortion with further deregulation of oral contraception<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a study of women from 2014, just 13% of abortion patients reported using oral contraceptives. But more than a quarter used condoms, which are only 87% with typical use, and 7.4% used withdrawal, a \u201cbirth control\u201d method so ineffective it cannot even accurately be described as such. (About 1 in 5 couples who rely on pulling out will conceive within a year.) More than half were using zero birth control method.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have terribly recent data confirming why so many abortion recipients are using such ineffective forms of birth control. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6102a1.htm?s_cid=mm6102a1_w#fig\" title>a massive Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study<\/a> of nearly 200,000 women from 2004 to 2008 found that nearly a quarter of teenage mothers who weren\u2019t using any birth control when they conceived an unwanted pregnancy said their partner \u201cdid not want to use contraception.\u201d Another 13% said they \u201chad trouble getting pregnant.\u201d Access to over-the-counter oral contraception as an invisible and more effective alternative to condoms would prevent a substantial share of those pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>In a second Trump term, Republicans could push the FDA to authorize over-the-counter status to even more formulations for birth control pills, including the combination pills, which don\u2019t need to be taken at the same time every day and are thus more effective with typical use. In the short term, we can all look at the likely lull in the price of Opill as proof that deregulation doesn\u2019t just improve the greatest good for the greatest number as a matter of economics. It also helps empower women to make proactive choices before conceiving an unwanted pregnancy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norgestrel, patented over six decades ago, is now available as Opill, the first progestin-only birth control pill granted nationwide OTC status by the FDA. Retail giants like Amazon, Target, CVS, and Walmart offer a three-month supply online and in stores, marking a significant milestone in accessible contraception<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2693,"featured_media":2219041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/wb-tiana-lowe-doescher-otc-birth-control-mandate-alternative-041024C1-1024x591.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/wb-tiana-lowe-doescher-otc-birth-control-mandate-alternative-041024C1-1024x591.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}