How advocates and pharma partnered to launch over-the-counter birth control

Opill is more than just the first birth control pill available over the counter – it’s also the story of how a coalition of grassroots organizers, reproductive justice advocates, youth activists, researchers, providers, philanthropists, and a pharmaceutical company worked together to advance reproductive health care. It’s a roadmap for how innovation rooted in a deep understanding of reproductive justice can expand access to essential healthcare.

The Packard Foundation wrote about how Ibis Reproductive Health led the #FreeThePill movement that brought the United States their first-ever over-the-counter birth control in the story below.