Walgreens won't distribute abortion pills in some states where they remain legal

[Nevilledog]

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/02/walgreens-abortion-pills-00085325

The nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain confirmed Thursday that it will not dispense abortion pills in several states where they remain legal — acting out of an abundance of caution amid a shifting policy landscape, threats from state officials and pressure from anti-abortion activists.

Nearly two dozen Republican state attorneys general wrote to Walgreens in February, threatening legal action if the company began distributing the drugs, which have become the nation’s most popular method for ending a pregnancy.

The company told POLITICO that it has since responded to all the officials, assuring them that they will not dispense abortion pills either by mail or at their brick-and-mortar locations in those states.

The list includes several states where abortion in general, and the medications specifically, remain legal — including Alaska, Iowa, Kansas and Montana. For example, Kansas’ law that patients only obtain the pills directly from a physician is blocked in court.

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[live love laugh]

1. Note 📝 to self: Switch pharmacies

[Takket]

2. Dear Walgreens........

1. Fire your corporate lawyers
2. Hire lawyers that know what the Commerce clause is
3. Tell the State Ag's to go fuck themselves sideways with a rusty razor blade.

Thanks.

[Lochloosa]

3. FUCK Walgreens. I have other reasons to never step foot in their stores.

Just add this to the list.

[hippywife]

4. Cowards!

These corporations have much greater ability to fight this kind of thing, but sadly, then their stockholders might sue them.

[Hortensis]

5. Happy we have no Rxs there, so no need to move them.

The right's also going after antidepressants, SSRIs in particular, for political rabblerousing reasons. Will Walgreens rush to appeasement in an "abundance of caution" when those demands come?

[PlanetBev]

6. This is how dictatorships come about

They are aided by the cowardice and self-policing of it’s citizenry.