The Ticket  Bobby Jindal: Birth control should be over the
counter  Liz Goodwin The Ticket  View photo   Bobby Jindal in
June. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a
Republican and a potential 2016 presidential candidate, has a
solution for the GOP's birth control problem: Make it over the
counter.  "The American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists announced its support last month for selling oral
contraceptives over the counter without a prescription in the
United States," Jindal writes in Friday's Wall Street Journal
opinion section. "I agree with this opinion, which if embraced
by the federal government would take contraception out of the
political arena." Jindal also writes that prescription birth
control drives up costs with unnecessary doctors' visits.
"Democrats have wrongly accused Republicans of being against
birth control and against allowing people to use it. That's
hogwash," Jindal wrote. "But Republicans do want to protect
those who have religious beliefs that are oppo