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California Governor Gavin Newsom, 55, spoke retired astir Walgreens precocious naming implicit 20 states successful which they volition not merchantability termination medicine astatine their stores. The politician took to Twitter connected Monday to stock a connection that stated California “won’t beryllium doing concern with” the fashionable pharmacy store oregon “any institution that cowers to the extremists and puts women’s lives astatine risk.” He ended the tweet, which tin beryllium seen below, with the words, “We’re done.”
California won't beryllium doing concern with @walgreens — oregon immoderate institution that cowers to the extremists and puts women's lives astatine risk.
We're done.https://t.co/OB10cYfm8H
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) March 6, 2023
Gavin’s absorption comes 3 days aft Walgreens revealed the stores successful the reddish states volition not dispense mifepristone, which is the archetypal of 2 drugs successful the medicine termination process that ends “a intrauterine gestation done 10 weeks gestation,” according to the FDA. The determination followed a Feb. 1st missive from GOP attorneys wide successful those states, CNN reported. The GOP leaders person besides precocious been targeting assorted businesses, including Disney and concern funds.
Walgreens – ya fucked up.
Can you say… CVS???
— Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) March 6, 2023
“We mean to beryllium a certified pharmacy and volition administer mifepristone lone successful those jurisdictions wherever it is ineligible and operationally feasible,” Walgreens said successful a statement, CNN further reported. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration antecedently said that pharmacies that become certified to dispense mifepristone tin bash truthful straight to a idiosyncratic who has a medicine from a certified prescriber.
Pharmacists person been refusing to capable these benignant of meds for years astatine Walgreens. I don’t store determination ne'er have.
— Peter Frampton (@peterframpton) March 6, 2023
The termination medication, which reportedly accounts for the bulk of abortions successful the U.S., has go a arguable taxable since the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe Vs. Wade past year, and a national justice successful Texas is expected to soon marque a ruling connected a suit looking to artifact the usage of mifepristone nationwide. The lawsuit, which was filed by anti-abortion advocates successful Nov., is the biggest abortion-related lawsuit since the overturn of Roe Vs. Wade, and threatens the FDA’s 20-year-old support of mifepristone.
Far-right peculiar interests are making advancement successful their crippled to prohibition termination nationwide, with @walgreens precocious announcing it won't administer termination pills successful immoderate states wherever termination remains legal. @GavinNewsom is close to clasp extremists and their enablers accountable. https://t.co/o4MlEoWZK3
— Katie Porter (@katieporteroc) March 6, 2023
“If FDA support of mifepristone is revoked, 64.5 cardinal women of reproductive property successful the U.S. would suffer access to medicine termination care, an exponential summation successful harm overnight,” NARAL reportedly said successful a connection successful Feb., referencing research.
Soon aft Gavin shared his disapproval of Walgreens’ determination to not merchantability the termination medication, immoderate celebrities, including Billy Baldwin, Peter Frampton, and more, tweeted their enactment of his opinion. “Walgreens – ya f*cked up. Can you say…CVS?” Billy wrote successful his message. “Pharmacists person been refusing to capable these kinds of meds for years astatine Walgreens. I don’t store determination ne'er have,” Peter’s connection read.
California congresswoman Katie Porter was different nationalist fig to applaud Gavin’s words. “Far-right peculiar interests are making advancement successful their crippled to prohibition termination nationwide, with @walgreens recently announcing it won’t administer termination pills successful immoderate states wherever termination remains legal. @GavinNewsom is close to clasp extremists and their enablers accountable,” her tweet read. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar had a akin sentiment erstwhile she tweeted, “This is precisely wherefore we request to codify the protections of Roe vs. Wade and warrant the close to entree care.”
Michael Moore condemned Walgreens’ determination by calling for a nationalist boycott of the pharmacy connected his website. “This determination by Walgreens to further cement women’s presumption arsenic second-class citizens indispensable beryllium met forcefully by each and each 1 of us. Every time of our soundlessness since past Thursday is different time of you and I enabling this bigotry and misogyny,” helium wrote connected the site.
“Please articulation with maine and others successful a NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT OF WALGREENS. They indispensable reverse their determination immediately,” helium added. “They indispensable admit that astir 70% of each Americans judge this ineligible medicine beryllium made easy disposable to each women — and that the immense bulk of Americans inactive enactment Roe v Wade.”
Michael besides shared a database of each the states successful which Walgreens refuses to merchantability the termination medication. They see Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
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