FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive
This is amazing, it will help a lot of people have access to a drug that can vastly improve quality of life without being gatekept by their doctor.Just one note about the phrasing of all the headlines: they’re phrased as if the FDA did a good thing, but it’s better to imagine this as the FDA _stopping_ doing a bad thing. The only reason that we haven’t had over the counter oral contraceptive for the last fifty years is because the FDA _didn’t_ allow it over the counter.