As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether the Food and Drug Administration wrongfully endorsed abortion pills by mail without regard to its detrimental and fatal effects on women and babies, hundreds of Walgreens and CVS Health stores across the United States will start dispensing dangerous abortion-inducing drugs this month.
The pharmacies declined to sell mifepristone in some areas after Republican leaders in states like Texas and Kansas threatened legal action, but plan to offer the abortion-inducing drugs in six pro-abortion, Democrat-run states: California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.
President Joe Biden celebrated the chemical abortion sales as an “important milestone” that should be mimicked by “all pharmacies.”
Since the drug’s approval in 2000, mifepristone has become responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions. The pill works by cutting off the hormones babies in utero require to grow and flourish, killing the child essentially via starvation. Then, it induces a form of labor that causes the baby to exit the body amid profuse bleeding that may last weeks or even months.
Under the Biden administration, the FDA quietly modified its already debated regulation to accommodate the White House’s post-Roe activism and open the door for the nation’s pharmacies to become abortion pill dispensaries. Before that decision, mifepristone could only be obtained via clinic, doctor, or mail order, a lockdown-era provision the Biden administration made permanent in 2021.
The drastic shift in how women obtain abortion pills means most women are downing the drugs at home alone, leaving them susceptible to hemorrhage and other
