Kansas Attorney General Stops Walgreens From Selling Abortion Pills
February 21, 2023 | Kansas
The pharmacy chain Walgreens will not sell abortion drugs in Kansas after state Attorney General Kris Kobach warned the company that doing so would violate state and federal law, his office said Monday.
“This is a significant victory for the pro-life cause and for women’s health,” Kobach said in a statement. “The dispensing of these pills without a supervising physician present would expose women to complications and potentially to coercion as well.”
In January, Walgreens, CVS and, later, RiteAid announced plans to begin selling abortion drugs that are used to kill unborn babies up to about 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Their decisions came after the Biden administration dropped safety regulations for the dangerous abortion drug mifepristone, which been linked to the deaths of millions of babies and dozens of women. Previously, mifepristone only could be dispensed by FDA-approved abortion facilities, medical offices and hospitals under the direct supervision of a licensed physician.
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Kobach and other Republican attorneys general have been warning pharmacies not to listen to the Biden administration, saying the changes are dangerous and illegal.
In a letter to Walgreens dated Feb. 6, Kobach told the company that sending abortion drugs through the mail and distributing them without the direct, in-person supervision of a licensed medical doctor violate state and federal laws… (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)
