'But there’s a catch: they will only have access to one brand of one kind of birth control pill, a progestin-only pill. And while it may be safer to use than other birth control pills, the pill has drawbacks,' writes dr4liberty
But there’s a catch: they will only have access to one brand of one kind of birth control pill, a progestin-only pill. And while it may be safer to use than other birth control pills, the pill has drawbacks.
Regular birth control pills contain two female hormones, estrogen and progesterone. The progestin-only drug is nicknamed “the mini-pill” because it only contains progesterone. Unlike regular birth control pills, the mini-pill doesn’t affect milk production in nursing mothers and has less tendency to cause traveling blood clots in women who smoke.. If they take it more than three hours later, women must use another form of contraception for the rest of the month and start the cycle again.
It is paternalistic for the FDA to restrict women's OTC options to progestin-only pills—and to limit them to one progestin-only product. The agency presumably doesn’t trust women to compare the risks and benefits of the various birth control pills and decide which is best for them. Yet, a of women in the Seattle area who were asked to self-assess for birth control pills found they matched the opinion of doctors 90 percent of the time—the other 10 percent said they were
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