On both counts you're taking rare, slowly forming problems and grossly exaggerating their severity or risk of happening. I personally know numerous women in my

On both counts you're taking rare, slowly forming problems and grossly exaggerating their severity or risk of happening. I personally know numerous women in my country who take birth control pills without a prescription and they're fine, and have been for many years so far. They simply follow the label instructions. I've been taking prednisone without an obligatory prescription on and off for a long time and know a number of people who have had to take it too, without any serious problems. They just follow their doctor's basic instructions on its use. The required-prescription craze in the U.S is indeed in many ways paranoid safety theater, a constant rent-seeking process that often justifies itself in the name of nebulous safety scares. People don't need to be treated like children to nearly the degree you seem to favor for what are usually completely personal health choices which don't easily affect others directly. Enough.