Mon Mar 6, 2023 – 1:00 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Pharmaceutical chain Walgreens has confirmed it will not dispense abortion pills in states where abortion itself is legal but Republican attorneys general have warned that distributing abortion pills via the mail is not.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, allowing states to directly ban abortion and reactivating numerous old abortion laws, the abortion lobby and its Democrat allies have been scrambling to enact a number of strategies to preserve abortion “access” across state lines, with interstate distribution of abortion pills being one of the chief methods to emerge.
Among those moves was the FDA eliminating the requirement that abortion pills only be dispensed in-person to the women taking them, and the Biden Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) declaring that abortion pills may be freely mailed across the country, despite the fact that a provision of a 150-year-old law called the Comstock Act that expressly says the opposite.
Shortly after the FDA updated its website to reflect the new guidelines allowing retail pharmacies to carry mifepristone, pending the completion of an agreement form, Walgreens and pharmacy chain CVS announced that they would fill
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