Walgreens had said it will not dispense mifepristone in their states and is not planning to ship the drug to consumers either.
In February, 20 Republican state attorneys general wrote to Walgreens threatening legal action if Walgreens provides theOn Thursday, Walgreens shifted its plan, sharing that it will not dispense mifepristone in their states and is not planning to ship the drug to consumers either., urged readers to boycott Walgreens, characterizing them as a pharmacy chain that “stands with anti-abortion extremists against the rights of women.
“Yes, preventing pregnancy was considered ‘obscene!’ Because anything that gives women even a smidgen of control in their lives was clearly obscene,” Moore added. “It was illegal for them to own property, to have their own bank account, to get a loan — and, god forbid, to decide if they wanted to be pregnant or not! Obscene!!”
The Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone in 2000 to end pregnancy, when used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol., calling the ruling a “legal whipping of women” and asserting that the Justices based their opinion on the “authoritarian religion” of Christianity.
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