Because they want to know who isn’t contributing to the slave production.
Oral birth control can have interactions with other medications, and can have side effects. It’s good to have it vetted through a doctor and pharmacist. Also, by putting various birth control under medical/pharmacist control, it’s easier to get it covered by health plans - yes, there are more ideal ways to deal with this, but sometimes we gotta work with what we got.
Fine, then give every trained licensed pharmacist authorization to prescribe and a requirement to prescribe upon request, barring adverse interactions.
You should be able to walk up to the counter and say I want some, and walk out 5 minutes later after the pharmacist double checks against any other meds you’re on.
Yes, that could work. And I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s coming. They’re slowly giving more authority to pharmacists as family doctors are scarce and the lobbiests for Shoppers and the like do their thing.
