The second-largest retail pharmacy chain won’t buck Republican attorneys general. Will others follow?
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“There is currently complexity around this issue in Kansas and elsewhere,” said Fraser Engerman, Walgreens’ senior director of external relations.
So Walgreens is basically saying it is not willing to assume any risk of legal peril in order to serve its red-state customers. Indeed, the chain is not yet distributing abortion pills anywhere, but it is going through the process of getting FDA-certified to sell them in places where there isn’t that peril. Meanwhile, the legality of red-state restrictions on distribution of abortion pills by mail could be contested in the courts for some time.
The impact of this decision will fall on women in red-state rural areas , where Walgreens is the principal retail pharmacy outlet. But the bigger question is whether the other big chains will follow suit and submit to legal and political intimidation. If they do, the remaining pharmacies may also be exposed to protests from anti-abortion activists aiming to make shopping there for any purpose a logistical nightmare.
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