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Requires pharmacies that handle FDA‑approved contraceptives and related medications to promptly provide those products to customers or assist them if the item is out of stock. It limits when a pharmacy may refuse to dispense contraceptives, requires pharmacies to prevent obstructive employee conduct, and creates civil penalties and a private right of action for enforcement, with the law taking effect 31 days after enactment. A short findings section frames contraception and family planning as essential health care, cites coverage and cost data, and identifies barriers to access such as cost, stockouts, and refusals by staff. The law aims to improve timely access while providing specific obligations and remedies for customers and regulators.
Family planning is basic health care; access to contraception helps people decide if and when to become pregnant and supports their educational, professional, and social goals.
Because of the Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148), approximately 151,600,000 people in the United States were enrolled in private health insurance plans in 2020; this included 58,000,000 women ages 19 to 64 who had coverage of FDA-approved, cleared, or authorized contraceptive methods without cost-sharing under those plans.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act saved women $1,400,000,000 on birth control pills alone in 2013.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data are cited about contraception use; the text states that among sexually active women who were not seeking pregnancy, nearly 9 in 10 have used contraception. (Note: one sentence in the source about overall use by women ages 15–49 appears incomplete in the text.)
People in the United States face many barriers to accessing birth control, including cost, geography, immigration status, language access, discrimination, and stigma; these barriers are rooted in systemic inequities, structural racism, and other forms of oppression.
Who is affected and how:
Net effect: The legislation is operationally straightforward but shifts compliance burdens to pharmacies and creates new enforcement pathways intended to make contraceptives more reliably available at the retail point of care.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced July 16, 2025 by Cory Anthony Booker · Last progress July 16, 2025
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in Senate