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Abortion Pills Coming to Major Pharmacies

March 1, 2024
The nation’s largest pharmacy chains, CVS and Walgreens, will begin selling the prescription abortion pill mifepristone in states where abortion is legal.
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CVS and Walgreens will begin selling the prescription abortion pill mifepristone in states where abortion is still legal. This follows a 2023 FDA ruling to allow pharmacies to distribute the pill, which was previously only available...
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And we have more breaking news.
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The biggest pharmacy chains,
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CVS and Walgreens will start selling the abortion pill,
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Mafe Prestone this month making it easier for many to access the
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method. So those are the biggest pharmacies are gonna carry this
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this abortion pill.
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And remember that the conservative majority of the Supreme Court essentially took
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away the right to get an abortion about two years ago
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So again, many states started banning it.
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Yeah, I just feel like these conservatives are like trying to
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like, I don't know,
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like, like block things but yet,
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like we swivel our way around it,
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you know, like,
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it's crazy. But I mean,
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women in half the states have seen their access to abortion,
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severely restricted access to these pills and pharmaceuticals is gonna be,
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very popular. I would say again,
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CV S Walgreens, two big players in the pharmacy game.
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It'll be interesting to see,
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how conservatives try to,
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again, get control of this.
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I think so. Yeah,
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I'm just, I'm curious to see what's gonna happen next with
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this.