Abortion Pills on Pharmacy Shelves: An Embittered Battle for the Unborn
Healthcare workers are pushing back against the increased promotion of abortion pills following a January ruling from the Food and Drug Administration, citing their religious rights to be exempted from selling the contraceptive pills. They are being joined in the fight against the abortion lobby by pro-life lawmakers, who are looking to further protect the unborn against the current administration’s anti-life policies.
The situation further highlights the current nationwide conflict between the Biden Administration’s relentless push for increased abortions in whatever form versus the renewed legal protection for the unborn following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Background
On January 3, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized a new rule which permits retail pharmacies and drug stores to sell the abortifacient drug, mifepristone. Announcing the new rule, which removes former FDA rules on limiting access to mifepristone, the FDA stated that the drug can be dispensed by pharmacies who receive the necessary certification. Receipt of the abortion pill would require a prescription, but the pill can then be dispensed to the person at the counter.
The move represented a significant expansion to access to abortion, as noted by abortion giant Planned Parenthood. The organization’s president Alexis McGill Johnson welcomed the FDA’s move, calling it “a step in the right direction for health equity.”
Johnson called the measure a “game changer for people trying to access basic health care…Today’s changes will help millions of people have more access to the care they need, when they need it.”
Drug store giants CVS and Walgreens were quick to jump on the new permission, declaring only one day later that they would take advantage of it. Women could thus collect abortion pills in their stores instead of at a doctor’s clinic. Some days later, Rite Aid followed suit and announced it would start the process to authorize the dispensing of mifepristone in its stores.
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