For Star subscribers: Starting in July, Arizona pharmacists will, for the first time, be allowed to dispense birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives without seeing prescriptions.
Starting in July, on a date yet to be set, Arizona pharmacists will, for the first time since birth control pills were authorized in 1960, be allowed to dispense them without women having to present a prescription.It won't be quite the same as grabbing a bottle of cough medicine off the shelf. Women will still need to answer some questions from the pharmacist to determine if the hormones will be safe and appropriate for them.
"Pregnancy should be the decision of the woman,'' said Rep. Athena Salman, D-Tempe."Right now women face barriers in our community because they don't have access to doctors for a variety of reasons, one of which is because health care premiums keep going up. We should be making it as accessible as possible for women who want to plan their pregnancies to be able to do that.
Cobb, who is a dentist, said regular visits are designed to ensure the chemicals in the contraceptive devices are not causing problems. She noted a link between certain types of birth control, particularly those using estrogen, and potentially fatal blood clots. Beyond that, Humble said, there are some conditions that put women who take oral contraceptives at higher risk for blood clots. It requires pharmacists, before dispensing any pill or device that has hormones, to ask patients to fill out a self-screening risk assessment designed to determine whether there are any indications contraceptives may not be appropriate.That's part of the reason there is no firm date for when the contraceptives will be available without an individual prescription.
Strictly speaking, nothing in the law or the rules enacted by the Board of Pharmacy say an affirmative answer to one or more of those questions disqualifies a customer from getting the pills. Instead, that is left to the judgment of each individual pharmacist. "It just makes it that much easier for women to access birth control and their ability to control reproduction and have autonomy over that side of things,'' he said.
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