The national drug store chain Rite Aid announced today that it will become the third in the nation to sell the dangerous abortion pill that kills babies and injures women.
Walgreens and CVS will sell the abortion drug that has killed millions of babies. Their decision comes after the Biden admin decided to allow pharmacies to sell the dangerous abortion drug that has killed millions of babies and injured thousands of women. Previously, mifepristone could only be dispensed by clinics, medical offices, and hospitals or under the supervision of a licensed physician.
Now Rite Aid will follow suit:
Rite Aid Corp (RAD.N) plans to dispense abortion medication in a limited number of its pharmacies and will serve customers either in person or through mail delivery, the U.S. drugstore chain said on Thursday.
The company aims to dispense the pill, mifepristone, in compliance with federal and state laws.
“We are committed to ensuring equitable access to customers prescribed this product”, Rite Aid said in an emailed statement.
Leading pro-life groups have launched boycottsagainst these companies and one pro-life group protested outside CVS this week.
Brandi Swindell, founder of Stanton Public Policy Center, told LifeNews, “We are gathering outside of CVS to protest the sale of chemical abortion pills in local pharmacies and we are calling for company officials not to make them available at their stores nationwide.”
ACTION ALERT: Contact Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid and let them know you will boycott their stores until they stop selling the abortion pill.
“Chemical abortions take the lives of innocent children, put women’s health at risk, harm the environment and will turn neighborhood pharmacies into abortion clinics. We will not be silent when it comes to standing for the safety of women’s health and wellness,” she said.
Leading pro-life advocate Patrick Mahoney is also a part of the protest.
“This protest at CVS is part of Stanton’s national campaign to #BanChemicalAbortions. Our goal is to end chemical abortions through public engagement, education, life-affirming public policy, and legislation. The pro-life community, and all who embrace human rights must passionately stand against this barbaric anti-woman practice,” he told LifeNews. “Like civil rights workers who a generation ago protested at lunch counters and businesses that supported segregation and racial injustice, we will be protesting at local pharmacies to prevent them from being turned into abortion clinics as we embrace equal justice for all.”
CVS is also coming under fire for firing a pro-life nurse who refused to fill prescriptoions for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.
The FDA has already lifted its in-person requirement for a doctor visit which is a medical necessity because taking the abortion pill in a variety of situations such as an ectopic pregnancy can be fatal for women. The decision will set up the ability of customers to purchase the abortion pill via teleconference — denying women the doctor’s visit they should be getting to avoid potential death or major complications.
In November, a watchdog organization sued the Biden administration for information about its decision to expand use of the dangerous abortion drug mifepristone.
The lawsuit from Judicial Watch accuses the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of repeatedly ignoring its requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act.
The organization requested documents about recent research and testing of the abortion drug mifepristone, as well as correspondence between HHS and the drug manufacturers, DANCO and GenBio. In December 2021, the Biden administration began allowing abortion groups to sell the drug through the mail without any direct patient contact.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said they believe Biden officials did not appropriately review evidence about the abortion drug before expanding its use last year.
“It is outrageous that Judicial Watch has had to sue in federal court for basic safety information about the abortion pill, which is being pushed on women by a desperate pro-abortion movement,” Fitton said.
Judicial Watch submitted three requests for information from the Biden administration in February but never received a response, according to the lawsuit.
Fitton said women especially deserve to know if the abortion drug is as safe and effective as its proponents claim.
“The Biden administration wants the pill to have wide access, so anything that threatens that agenda will be kept secret,” he told Fox News this week. “If this pill is as important as the Biden administration suggests, then American women have the right to as much information as possible on its safety and efficacy.”
First approved under the Clinton administration, mifepristone is used to abort unborn babies up to about 10 weeks of pregnancy – although some abortion groups want to use it later. It works by blocking the hormone progesterone and basically starving the unborn baby to death. Typically, abortion groups also prescribe a second drug, misoprostol, to induce labor and expel the baby’s body.
Mifepristone is used for more than half of all abortions in the United States, according to a report from the Guttmacher Institute. In 2020, the drug was responsible for 54 percent of all unborn babies’ abortion deaths, up from 39 percent in 2017, the pro-abortion research group found.
Growing research indicates the drug is not safe for mothers either.
In the United States, the FDA has linked mifepristone to at least 26 women’s deaths and 4,000 serious complications between 2000 and 2018. However, under President Barack Obama, the FDA stopped requiring that non-fatal complications from mifepristone be reported. So the numbers almost certainly are much higher.
Studies indicate the risks are more common than what abortion activists often claim, with as many as one in 17 women requiring hospital treatment. A recent study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the rate of abortion-related emergency room visits by women taking the abortion drug increased more than 500 percent between 2002 and 2015.
In England, which began allowing mail-order abortion drugs around the same time as the U.S., new investigations show a huge increase in ambulance calls and reports of coercion and abuse. There also have been reports of late-term babies being born alive at home as a result of mail-order abortion drugs because their mothers did not realize how far along they were.
With mail-order abortions, doctors say life-threatening pregnancy complications may go undetected. Dr. Christina Francis of the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNs told Aleteia recently that a woman may take the abortion drugs with an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy and then mistake warning signs as symptoms of the abortion.
“I can tell you from personal experience caring for women who have ruptured ectopic pregnancies that within just a few hours they can go from feeling fine to being in hemorrhagic shock and facing death, so if you get this delay in care because she’s sitting at home thinking ‘Oh, they told me I was going to have some pain; they told me I was going to have some bleeding, and it’s all very normal,’ she doesn’t seek care,” Francis said.
Coercion and abuse also are concerns. LifeNews has reported a number of stories in recent years about sex traffickers, abusive partners and parents forcing or tricking pregnant women and girls into aborting their unborn babies. A midwife with the abortion chain MSI Reproductive Health recently told the BBC that recognizing coercion is a big problem among abortion providers, and the new mail-order abortion practice makes it even worse.
ACTION ALERT: Contact Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid and let them know you will boycott their stores until they stop selling the abortion pill.
