Walgreens has said that it will not dispense abortion pills in states where the medications are legal after Republican state officials threatened to take legal action against them.
Walgreens’s decision could have a devastating impact on abortion access. Elizabeth Nash, state policy expert at the Guttmacher Institute, said that pharmacies like Walgreens can be a patient’s closest point of care in rural areas.. “When we’re thinking about states that have a lot of their population in rural areas, it’s much more likely that a pharmacy is nearby than a provider’s office, so these pharmacies play an outsized role in patient health and access to health care.
The exchange between Republican attorneys general and Walgreens is the latest example of the extremity of the anti-abortion movement causing abortion access to be curtailed even in cases where the procedure is legal. As abortion advocates have pointed out, abortion restrictionsto be vague and confusing, enabling the right to cast a wide net in terms of who anti-abortionists can threaten to prosecute in relation to abortion care.
“This is what actual fascism looks like in our corporate hellscape — one of the two largest pharmacy chains in the U.S. rushing to comply with draconian, authoritarian rules that don’t even apply,”Cortland pointed out that Walgreens’s decision will have an even wider impact than it would have had if government officials had reined in corporate consolidations in recent years.
Beyond threatening the bodily autonomy of millions of Americans, abortion bans have had vast effects on health care not explicitly related to abortions.
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