CVS, Walgreens to begin selling mifepristone abortion pill
Pharmacies CVS Health (CVS) and Walgreens (WBA) are reportedly set to begin selling the abortion pill mifepristone, distributing in select states while adhering to various states' abortion laws.
Yahoo Finance Health Reporter Anjalee Khemlani breaks down the report.
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Video Transcript
- Big news from CVS and Walgreens, announcing selling of an abortion pill. Talk to me about that.
ANJALEE KHEMLANI: Yes, mifepristone. That's one of the two pills used in abortion, the other one, misoprostol, we know is already available. And mifepristone was the one that the FDA allowed to then be sold regularly on the market over the counter, and this is where that starts off. Now, CVS and Walgreens coming out and saying that they will begin dispensing this month in select states, and then they're going to be expanding only to states where it is legal.
We know that there are, of course, many cases in many states that have set up barriers and maybe not allowed pharmacies to dispense just because that's the way their abortion rules have been written, or for recently banned abortions standing in the way. So for any state that doesn't already have that ability, they will not be able to dispense there. But as of right now, this is moving forward on where they expected to be with this dispensing.
