As part of their larger effort to muddy the waters around their unpopular positions on women’s healthand birth control, some politicians, including Cory Gardner in Colorado, are proposing to move select forms of birth control over-the-counter. Planned Parenthood Action Fund supports any effort to expand access to birth control, including efforts to make some forms of birth control available over-the-counter (OTC). At the same time, it is important that voters know the truth about these claims by politicians running for office: they are empty gestures.
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