Statins category X drug: Not for OTC

"Statins are categorized by the FDA use-in pregnancy ratings under category X.
Category X is defined as "adequate well-controlled or observational studies in animals or pregnant women have demonstrated positive evidence of fetal abnormalities or risks." (from a Canadian pharmacist.)

Would you want your daughter taking these drugs, then becoming pregnant and learning at, say, three months gestation, of their potential for fetal abnormalities? When would it be too late to quit taking them?

Category X drugs should not be over-the-counter.

However, there may be a built in fail-safe here:

If our fictional woman has been taking statins for a couple years, she will likely already have mitochondrial damage caused by cholesterol depletion, which then effects dolichols (precursor to coenzyme q10);
peripheral neuropathy, polyneuropathy, pancreatitis, gall bladder disease, cognitive adverse effect including transient global amnesia, short term memory loss, aphasia including language and vocabulary loss, thinking and learning difficulties particularly of organization and other executive functions. She may also have mitochondrial myopathy including muscle pain, weakness and atrophy and will have joint pain. She may have ocular myasthenia, chronic sinus condition, chronic plantar fasciaitis and gout.

A real hottie.

But all is not lost. As the statin Pharmas would say, statin-induced fetal deformity would be a rare occurence. They may be right: