As the drugstore chains Walgreens and CVS Health plan to begin dispensing the controversial abortion pill mifepristone, Illinois reproductive rights advocates praise the new means of access to the …
Brenda Morgan, training and education specialist for Whole Woman’s Health of South Bend, Indiana, holds Mifepristone, a progesterone blocker, on July 19, 2019. plan to begin dispensing the controversial abortion pill mifepristone, Illinois reproductive rights advocates praise the new means of access to the medication — which they say will improve health equity as well as help destigmatize abortion.
Yet Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League, said it’s “horribly disappointing” that patrons will be able to “just walk into your neighborhood pharmacy and procure an abortion pill.” Packs of mifepristone in Ridgewood, N.J, on April 18, 2023. The Supreme Court will hear a case challenging the Food and Drug Adminstration’s approval of a commonly used abortion pill.
Both retailers say they plan to carry mifepristone in brick-and-mortar stores but do not plan on providing the medication to patients via mail. First the patient takes mifepristone to dilate the cervix and block the pregnancy hormone progesterone; the second medication, misoprostol, is taken aboutMore than 5 million patients have taken mifepristone since it was approved by the FDA in 2000, according to theLong-standing FDA regulations used to required mifepristone be dispensed in-person at a hospital, health center or other designated medical location.
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