Going forward, Utah women will no longer need a prescription to pick up birth-control pills and other contraceptives from their pharmacies, a change meant to reduce unwanted pregnancies in the state.
Scrapping the blanket requirement for a prescription will hopefully lower costs for women and clear away other barriers to family planning, state health officials say.
“At times, a woman knows what she wants but may have a high-deductible plan so that even going back to the doctor costs another 100 or 120 bucks,” said Rep. Raymond Ward, R-Bountiful, a physician who helped sponsor the 2018 legislation that enabled the change.