Online orders to begin for first over-the-counter birth control pill in the US, drugmaker says

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Source: CNN

Online orders to begin for first over-the-counter birth control pill in the US, drugmaker says

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
6 minute read
Published 7:55 AM EDT, Mon March 18, 2024

(CNN) — The rollout is underway for Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the United States, and online sales begin Monday morning, according to drugmaker Perrigo.

Consumers can start ordering Opill online Monday, and orders will be fulfilled within a day or two, Sara Young, senior vice president and chief consumer officer at Perrigo, said in an email. So far, the product will be available at Opill.com and Amazon.

“Because privacy is important to Perrigo, Opill orders will be sent in plain, unbranded boxes,” Young wrote.

Opill has a suggested retail price of $19.99 for a one-month supply, $49.99 for a three-month supply, and at Opill.com, a six-month supply will be available for $89.99.

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/health/otc-birth-control-opill-online-orders/index.html

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But we hate Amazon.

Try to adjust.

Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Amazon Begins Online Sales For OTC Birth Control Pills
March 18, 2024

https://www.joemygod.com/2024/03/amazon-begins-online-sales-for-otc-birth-control-pills/

[CousinIT]

1. How long before the American Taliban try to shut that down?

Anybody want to wager a guess?

[Hekate]

3. Red states have laid groundwork since Dobbs to bring back the 1873 Comstock Act re mailing obscene materials...

IIRC, “obscene” included pamphlets about reproductive health and contraceptive devices. Margaret Sanger got jailed for that in 1914, over a century ago.

I didn’t see anything on Amazon about their self-policing themselves and not mailing contraceptives to states that want the USPS, a federal agency, to not deliver such items. So we shall see if a plain brown wrapper sets off the Talibangelicals.

I never liked the meme about “going back to the 1950s” — Dobbs enabled states to go much further back than that, and they began immediately.

[Hekate]

2. I just checked-- here's the Amazon link to their offerings. This is good news.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Opill&i=amazon-pharmacy&ref=nb_sb_noss

[CTyankee]

8. Thanks to Amazon for this. The repukes must be shitting themselves that women can get gyn health care in the privacy of

their own homes. Too bad, assholes...

[republianmushroom]

4. About time, but, the repukes will have a fit.

I like it.

[wolfie001]

5. Anything that causes them to lose sleep, I'm all for it!!! nt

[NanaCat]

7. This is our version of owning.

We get to do it much more often. May be why we're so much happier than the MAGA crowd.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. The Repugs will demand the names and

addresses.