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Walgreens stops offer abortion pill in 21 states, face blowback, NYTimes report
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Walgreens stops offer abortion pill in 21 states, face blowback, NYTimes report

After announcing it will not dispense an abortion pill in 21 states where Republican attorneys general have threatened legal action against pharmacies distributing the medicine, Walgreens (WBA) has landed in the center of a consumer and political controversy, Pam Belluck and Julie Creswell of The New York Times reports. Late last week, Walgreens confirmed it would not distribute mifepristone, the first pill in a two-drug medication abortion regimen, after it and other large pharmacy chains received signed letters by those attorney generals. A spokesman for Walgreens said the chain had always dispensed the drug where state laws allowed pharmacists to do so and had decided that it would face legal repercussions in those 21 states before its received the letters from the attorney generals. CVS (CVS) and Rite Aid (RAD) also face the same legal and reputational dilemma as Walgreens. Reference Link

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