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Doctors back over-the-counter birth control pills

WASHINGTON — No prescription or doctor’s exam needed: The nation’s largest group of obstetricians and gynecologists says birth control pills should be sold over the counter, like condoms.

Tuesday’s surprise opinion from these gatekeepers of contraception could boost longtime efforts by women’s advocates to make the pill more accessible.

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It will never go the Sandra Flukes (grad student) would have to pay for them and this would be against women's rights...for a freebie. It would help those religious companies etc. not to have to pay for them. After all $10.00 is to much to pay when you can buy cigarettes with that money.

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