Why are people boycotting Walgreens? Abortion pill controversy explained

Drug store monster Walgreens has arrived in a contention subsequent to declaring it will never again sell the early termination medicine mifepristone in 20 conservative states, it is as yet thought to be legitimate to incorporate the ones where fetus removal.

Politico revealed that the move comes after 20 conservative head legal officers composed a letter to the organization and different drug stores like CVS, Walmart, and Costco last month compromising that lawful move will be made assuming that the organizations keep on dispersing fetus removal pills.

The letter was apparently co-endorsed by lawyers general from states including Texas, Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, West Virginia, North Dakota, and South Carolina notwithstanding fetus removal staying legitimate in The Frozen North, Florida, Iowa, and Montana.

A representative for the drug store chain let Politico know that the organization has answered every head legal officer who marked the letter and concluded that it will neither administer mifepristone in drug stores nor mail it to those states.

Nonetheless, the organization is yet to openly affirm the states where the drug might in any case be accessible.

The U.S. Food and Medication Organization (FDA) first supported mifepristone in January and permitted it to be disseminated at drug stores in states where early termination is as yet viewed as legitimate after the Roe versus Swim administering.

The FDA likewise reported that retail drug stores can convey the pills to those with a medicine, in opposition to the past rule where the prescription was just open through specialists or mail-request.

At that point, Walgreens supposedly let Insider know that it was doing whatever it may take to become FDA-guaranteed for selling early termination pills in the states where they are lawful.
On Friday, a representative for the organization let the distribution know that the drug store monster actually expects to turn into a FDA-guaranteed dealer of the pills and will disperse the pills “just in those wards where it is legitimate and functionally plausible.”

In the mean time, California Lead representative Gavin Newsom reported that the state won’t work with the drug store anchor because of its choice not to sell fetus removal medicine in specific states. The government official took to Twitter to share:

“California will not be working with @/Walgreens or any organization that grovels to the fanatics and seriously endangers ladies’ lives. We’re finished.”