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Bobby Jindal: Birth control should be over the counter

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Bobby Jindal: Birth control should be over the counter | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican and a potential 2016 presidential candidate, has a solution for the GOP's birth control problem: Make it over the counter.

"The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced its support last month for selling oral contraceptives over the counter without a prescription in the United States," Jindal writes in Friday's Wall Street Journal opinion section. "I agree with this opinion, which if embraced by the federal government would take contraception out of the political arena." Jindal also writes that prescription birth control drives up costs with unnecessary doctors' visits.
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Is it possible some conservatives are finally starting to get with the program?

I guess we'll see.
 
I guess Jindal is not going after the Santorum voters.
 
PeteEU said:
Ohh someone is trying to change his image... not gonna work by a mile unless he says he believes in evolution...
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I'm okay with baby steps in the right direction....at least it's a start.
 
Though I am glad for his openness on this issue that is actually not a great idea. Women on birth control should get regular blood tests to watch for things like potassium increases which come from certain forms of birth control. There are legitimate reasons for doctors to see you while you are taking hormones, which is essentially what birth control is. However, things like the morning after pill may be different and might be able to be done OTC.

Bobby better watch out with all that talk. he might end up under the republican bus.
 
Birth control is the best defense against abortion.
 
Dragonfly said:
I'm okay with baby steps in the right direction....at least it's a start.
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Sorry on fundamental issues like this... changing your mind is not an option as a politician.. look at Romney and his flipflopping.
 
I don't think hormone birth control pills should be completely OTC since they are hormones, but I do think that they should be available in a pharmacy where the pharmacist can prescribe and dispense it for someone similarly to how Plan B works.
 
I don't really have a problem with them being OTC except that it will probably create a new problem in liability for manufacturers. Hormones can have some significant side effects, including blood clots/strokes/heart attacks, and for that reason, I have some reservations.
 
Still not voting for Jindal, Marco, Paul Ryan or whatever so called "conservative" Sean Hannity mentions daily.
 
tererun said:
Though I am glad for his openness on this issue that is actually not a great idea. Women on birth control should get regular blood tests to watch for things like potassium increases which come from certain forms of birth control. There are legitimate reasons for doctors to see you while you are taking hormones, which is essentially what birth control is. However, things like the morning after pill may be different and might be able to be done OTC.

Bobby better watch out with all that talk. he might end up under the republican bus.
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Why am I agreeing with you and why does it make me feel so dirty?
 
lizzie said:
I don't really have a problem with them being OTC except that it will probably create a new problem in liability for manufacturers. Hormones can have some significant side effects, including blood clots/strokes/heart attacks, and for that reason, I have some reservations.
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That's why I think it should be prescribed and dispensed by a pharmacist. Not only that, but some medications can interact with birth control or cause it to be less effective. A very very common interaction is with some antibiotics and birth controls that can interact making the birth control less effective. If a pharmacist didn't know a woman was on an OTC birth control they wouldn't know to tell them about the antibiotic interaction and there would be a potential increased risk of unplanned pregnancies. I think that having a similar model like what we have with Plan B would reduce the health risks associated with uncounselled and unsupervised hormone birth control (which would be the case with making it completely OTC status) use while also increasing access to birth controls since patients will no longer have to pay to see a physician and wait for an appointment.

I also think that it shouldn't be completely OTC for legal reasons as well. A prescription by law cannot be shared with anyone else, I think that a hormonal birth control should only be dispensed to an individual patient and not to be taken or shared by anybody other than the patient. It would be illegal for the patient to give their BC to someone else and hopefully deter that type of behavior.

To others: I don't really see though how this is much of a reversal on what Jindal believes unless he was for the banning of prescription birth control, which virtually no Republicans are in favor of.
 
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PeteEU said:
Sorry on fundamental issues like this... changing your mind is not an option as a politician.. look at Romney and his flipflopping.
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I believe ALL people can evolve, grow, learn, and alter their opinions and stances on certain topics. I would not call this flip-flopping in that it's just weeks after a major election, not weeks before.

At this stage of the game Bobby has more to lose than gain by coming out with these kinds of comments.

He's now got some time to prove where he really stands by building a record or votes on the subject.

Time will tell.
 
Dragonfly said:
I believe ALL people can evolve, grow, learn, and alter their opinions and stances on certain topics. I would not call this flip-flopping in that it's just weeks after a major election, not weeks before.

At this stage of the game Bobby has more to lose than gain by coming out with these kinds of comments.

He's now got some time to prove where he really stands by building a record or votes on the subject.

Time will tell.
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Sorry but it is rare that religious fundamentalists like him change their spots so to say.. he is just saying whatever he can to get the GOP nomination in 4 years.
 
digsbe said:
I don't think hormone birth control pills should be completely OTC since they are hormones, but I do think that they should be available in a pharmacy where the pharmacist can prescribe and dispense it for someone similarly to how Plan B works.
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I agree. OTC hormones would be a mistake.
 
johnny_rebson said:
I guess Jindal is not going after the Santorum voters.
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I think the Santorum Voters and other like minded extreme social issue voters need to form their own regional parties and allow the GOP to reclaim itself.
 
Dr. Chuckles said:
Why am I agreeing with you and why does it make me feel so dirty?
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It is the secret bronie within who lives in conflict with your image. Accept My Little pony into your heart and all will be clear. Or perhaps you were just masturbating to me?
 
Hell. Let's make birth control 100% free for liberals, and 100% mandatory for welfare recipients. Need to thin these herds down some.
 
Birth control should be available to whomever wants it, and if making it OTC can cut costs (and it will, by a lot), then it's a good idea. But there are two issues. First, risk of stroke goes up on most forms of female hormone birth control. I personally know someone who had a stroke in her early 30s linked to her birth control. And secondly, what is the chance of someone drugging their significant other without her knowledge and/or consent, and how big of an issue could this be?
 
apdst said:
You best hope not, because if Conservatives take irrelevant crap like birth control and gay marriage off the table, the Democrats might start losing elections.
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There's also something people may be missing, if B.C. becomes an OTC medicine it is no longer a prescription drug and could theoretically invalidate the mandate in Obamacare for insurance to have to provide it.
 
tererun said:
Though I am glad for his openness on this issue that is actually not a great idea. Women on birth control should get regular blood tests to watch for things like potassium increases which come from certain forms of birth control. There are legitimate reasons for doctors to see you while you are taking hormones, which is essentially what birth control is. However, things like the morning after pill may be different and might be able to be done OTC.

Bobby better watch out with all that talk. he might end up under the republican bus.
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Who has blood tests done when they're on birth control? Never heard of that.
 
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