Walgreens this week stated that it will not sell Mifepristone in Kansas after the state’s attorney general wrote a letter to the retail pharmacy giant warning that sending the abortion pills to Kansas would violate state and federal laws.
“Walgreens is not currently dispensing Mifepristone in any of its locations,” wrote Danielle C. Gray, Walgreen’s chief legal officer and executive vice president. “Walgreens does not intend to dispense Mifepristone within your state and does not intend to ship Mifepristone into your state from any of our pharmacies.”
The use of mail services to send abortion pills directly to women and the sale of Mifepristone at the retail level without medical oversight are a sharp departure from past norms. But these practices have become a high priority for the Biden administration as well as for abortion providers in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision striking down Roe vs. Wade.
See the full article by CatholicVote, February 21, 2023