Advocacy & Initiatives
Birth Control Pharmacist is engaged in various advocacy efforts, projects, and initiatives focused on increasing access to reproductive healthcare. Learn more about our ongoing projects and how you can be involved.
Birth Control Pharmacist in partnership with CPhA and the CPhA Foundation announce the Pharmacists Comprehensive Abortion and Reproductive Health Empowerment (CARE) Initiative to expand medication abortion and comprehensive reproductive health services in California and beyond. This includes the development of a training program and implementation package for pharmacies to become certified to dispense abortion medications and provide the full range of reproductive health services.
Access to abortion care has been decimated since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Pharmacists are in a unique position to increase access to medication abortion.
As of January 2023, the FDA Mifepristone REMS Program has removed the in-person dispensing requirement and allows certified pharmacies to dispense mifepristone to patients. To help you deliver medication abortion care, we have created and curated regulatory guidance, training materials, and clinical resources.
Pharmacists face many barriers to successful implementation of birth control services in their pharmacies. The Hormonal contraceptive Access via Pharmacist-Prescribing Implementation (HAPPI) Project aims to support effective and sustainable provision of pharmacist-prescribed contraception services.