Doctors push to make birth control available without prescription

• "It takes on a new urgency as we look down the path of having the loss of the right to abortion in this country," Dana Singiser, co-founder of the Contraceptive Access Initiative, told Axios.

Details: The American Medical Association at its annual meeting opted to follow the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and urge the FDA to make birth control pills available over-the-counter to Americans, without an age restriction.

• Two drug companies have been in discussions with the FDA for years to bring their birth control pills to this point, the New York Times reported last year.
• The AMA expects HRA Pharma to formally apply to the FDA for over-the-counter clearance before the end of the year. It completed its final testing phase in 2021.