Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs delivers her State of the State cope with on the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix, Jan. 9, 2023. Adults in Arizona can now download contraceptive drugs over-the-counter at a pharmacy with no physician’s prescription below a governor’s order introduced Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Picture/Ross D. Franklin, Record)

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Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs delivers her State of the State cope with on the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix, Jan. 9, 2023. Adults in Arizona can now download contraceptive drugs over-the-counter at a pharmacy with no physician’s prescription below a governor’s order introduced Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Picture/Ross D. Franklin, Record)

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PHOENIX — Adults in Arizona can now download contraceptive drugs over-the-counter at a pharmacy with no physician’s prescription below a governor’s order introduced Thursday.

Gov. Katie Hobbs mentioned the guideline will cross into impact straight away. It applies to self-administered delivery keep watch over equivalent to hormonal and oral contraceptives, and sufferers 18 or older want handiest entire a screening and a blood drive check.

“We’re development an Arizona for everybody, which means that making sure folks around the state have what they wish to are living a loose and wholesome existence,” the Democratic governor mentioned in a remark.

Over 20 states have statutes that permit pharmacists dispense FDA-approved hormonal contraceptives with no prescription, in line with a remark from the Arizona Division of Well being Services and products.

Hobbs has used her govt powers in contemporary weeks to advertise reproductive freedom. In June she issued a sweeping govt order successfully stripping prosecutors in their talent to pursue fees in opposition to any person concerned with a legally got abortion.

She additionally plans to enhance law subsequent yr that will codify get admission to to delivery keep watch over.