For decades, birth control pills in the United States have only been available with a prescription, but an application filed Monday with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an over-the-counter pill might change all that.
The latest effort to make birth control more accessible comes just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1973 case that guaranteed a woman’s right to abortion for nearly 50 years.
