'This willful corporate choice will prevent so many women from choosing the healthcare they need and have a legal right to,' said SenDuckworth.
Nineteen U.S. states have imposed restrictions on abortion pills, but there's a court battle over whether they have the power to do so in defiance of U.S. Food and Drug Administration policy. A physician and a company that makes the pill mifepristone filed separate lawsuits earlier this year seeking to strike down bans in North Carolina and West Virginia.
A Walgreens spokesperson said Thursday that the company is not yet selling abortion pills anywhere in the country but is working to become eligible through the FDA's certification process, after which it"will dispense only in those jurisdictions where it is legal to do so." "We are very concerned with those reports," he said,"because we as pharmacists want to ensure the patients have access to the best possible care that's informed by evidence."The nation's biggest pharmacy chains announced in January that they planned to seek U.S. certification to sell the pills used in medication abortion, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration loosened restrictions on where the drugs could be dispensed.
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