US drug store chain Walgreens has announced that it will no longer sell necessary abortion medication(s) in at least 20 U.S states. The move comes amid pressure from right-wing groups; fringe hysteria, and GOP lawmakers and their continued war on women. That war includes a battle against women’s healthcare in the country.
It would hit those hardest in places like Alaska; Montana, Iowa and Kansas.
200 far-right governors led a legal quest via threatening letters to the chain over the idea of them selling such pills in their states. Walgreens doesn’t actually sell abortion pills just yet, however, is actively in the process of obtaining certification to do so.
Politico was the first to report the decision.
“This is a very complex and in flux area of the law, and we are taking that into account as we seek certification to dispense Mifepristone,” Fraser Engerman, Walgreens’ senior director of external relations, said in a statement, adding that the company has confirmed with each attorney general in the letter that it will not dispense the pills in their states by mail or at Walgreens locations.
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