Big news in the birth control aisle. For the first time ever in the history of modern

birth control, Americans can buy birth control pills over the counter. It's called O-Pill and it's been around for a few decades now.

What's really interesting is that the big new news in birth control has absolutely

nothing to do with some scientific breakthrough or some medical breakthrough. It is more

of a social breakthrough. It was approved by the FDA last year and now later this month you can buy them online, somebody can buy them out for free.

You don't have to see a doctor, you don't have to show ID, you can just buy them the same way that you buy

Tylenol.

But does making birth control more available mean it's also more accessible?

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