California governor says state won't do business with Walgreens over position on abortion pill

California Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Monday said the authorities would nary longer bash concern with Walgreens, aft the drugstore concatenation told 21 Republican attorneys wide that it would not merchantability the termination pill successful their states.

Newsom said connected Twitter that the authorities is "done" doing concern with Walgreens. Brandon Richards, a spokesperson for the governor, said California is reviewing each relationships betwixt Walgreens and the state.

"We volition not prosecute concern with companies that cave to close helping bullies pushing their extremist docket oregon companies that enactment authorities supra the wellness of women and girls," Richards said.

Walgreens declined to comment.

The Food and Drug Administration successful January allowed retail pharmacies to merchantability the termination pill, mifepristone, if they are certified nether an bureau programme that monitors however the medicine is utilized and distributed.

Walgreens plans to go certified to merchantability mifepristone wherever it is ineligible to bash truthful nether authorities and national law, the institution has said. In February, 21 Republican attorneys general warned Walgreens against mailing mifepristone successful their states.

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The institution told the attorneys wide that it would not merchantability oregon message the pill successful their states. Politico archetypal reported the news.

Mifepristone, utilized successful operation with different cause called misoprostol, is the astir communal method to terminate a gestation successful the U.S., accounting for astir fractional of each abortions.

Mifepristone has go a cardinal absorption successful the conflict implicit termination entree successful the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade past June.

A radical of physicians who reason termination person asked a national tribunal successful Texas to suspend the Food and Drug Administration's support of mifepristone. Democratic attorneys general, connected the different hand, person asked a national tribunal successful Washington to state the remaining FDA restriction's connected mifepristone unconstitutional.

The FDA approved mifepristone much than 2 decades, but the bureau imposed restrictions to guarantee the pill's harmless use. The bureau has gradually eased those restrictions implicit the years arsenic much grounds connected its information and efficacy has travel in.

The bureau did distant with a request that patients get the pill successful idiosyncratic astatine definite health-care facilities and allowed the medicine to beryllium sent by mail. Patients inactive request a medicine from a health-care supplier that's certified with the FDA.