Walgreens said it is bound to follow the laws of different states.
What the governor’s remark might mean for Californians who rely on the Illinois-based national pharmacy chain was unclear. Newsom’s office could not answer whether residents who receive health care through state programs like Medi-Cal or Covered California would be forced to go to other pharmacies to use their benefits.
Jonathan Keller, president of California Family Council, one of the groups that was marching in Sacramento Monday, said the governor’s move would only hurt California residents. Such “medication abortions” outpaced surgical procedures for the first time in 2020 and now account for more than half of all U.S. abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
Walgreens last week said in response that it wouldn’t dispense the pills in those states — Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Mifepristone is legal in some of those states.
CVS has not indicated any change of plan but did not respond to questions Monday after Newsom’s statement. Rite Aid did not respond to questions about it either.
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