Hiltzik: Walgreens shows cowardice on abortion pills
By capitulating to antiabortion forces and showing its cowardice, Walgreens abandons its own customers and its corporate principles.
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By capitulating to antiabortion forces and showing its cowardice, Walgreens abandons its own customers and its corporate principles.
The notorious Madame Restell lived large and fearlessly in a century not so far, far away.
Most abortions today aren’t performed surgically. Rather, the growing majority result from taking drugs designed to induce abortion. President Biden’s Food and Drug Administration has been dropping long-standing safety restrictions on those drugs, including the requirement that they be obtained directly from a health care provider.
A federal law on the books for more than a century bans using the mail to send anything that can be used to induce abortion.
The lawsuit filed in US District Court aiming to overturn FDA approval for mifepristone could effectively ban abortion for the majority of American women.