5 Key Takeaways from R Street’s Lessons for Legislators
On Wednesday, November 18, I attended the webinar [2]
Lessons for Legislators: A Guide to Allowing Pharmacist-Prescribed Birth Control, hosted by R Street in conversation with Wisconsin State Assemblyman Joel Kitchens (R), champion of a 2019 state pharmacy access bill. Here are five key takeaways from their discussion:
Pharmacy Prescribed Birth Control is Perfectly Safe
There is no medical evidence suggesting that all contraception prescriptions need to come from doctors. Hormonal contraception has been available for over 50 years now, and pharmacists are trained medical professionals who can help folks review their options. Representative Kitchens explained that since there is no potential for abuse and hormonal contraception is about as dangerous as the ibuprofen in your medicine cabinet, there is no reason why pharmacists shouldn’t be allowed to prescribe it. In fact, he even went so far as to call the pharmacy acc