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The recently approved contraception Opill should be available for consumers next year. It's not clear how or whether insurance will cover it. Here's what's known so far.

The Food and Drug Administration’s July 13, 2023, approval of the first over-the-counter birth control pill, called Opill, broadens the options for people seeking to prevent pregnancy. When Opill becomes available, presumably in the first quarter of 2024, it will be sold in grocery and convenience stores, in pharmacies and…

No prescription will be needed starting early next year when women in the United States will be able to buy the first over-the-counter birth control pill.

People can get birth control with a doctor's or pharmacist's prescription. Soon, they won't need one.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the nation's first over-the-counter birth control pill after recently being advised to do so by a panel of experts.

Perrigo Co.’s Opill received U.S. clearance as the first daily oral birth-control product available without a prescription, coming at a time when reproductive rights are increasingly under fire.

Opill becomes the first hormonal birth control pill in the United States to be approved for over-the-counter sale by the Food and Drug Administration.

From convenience stores to online, the tablet "will be an available option for millions of people in the United States," the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research says.

The decision will likely expand availability of daily birth control pills, but questions around affordability still remain.