Abortion meds can now be sold in drugstore

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Some actually good news about Americans’ abortion access.

On March 1, the New York Times reported that over the following few weeks, some retail pharmacies owned by Walgreens and CVS will begin dispensing mifepristone, a key drug used in medication abortions.

Source:pbs.org

Anti-abortion activists have throttled mifepristone access from the start by burying it under piles of arbitrary restriction

Mifepristone works by blocking the progesterone hormone. During pregnancy, progesterone helps keep the lining of the uterus intact; without it, a pregnancy cannot go on. 

Source:pbs.org

But because mifepristone made abortion simpler : and increased privacy and safety for people seeking one — anti-abortion activists saw mifepristone as a huge threat. In the decades since the drug was approved, these activists, and the legislators and justices they lobby and fund, have responded by pushing for a web of regulation aimed at reducing mifepristone access in numerous ways.

Source:pbs.org

The biggest impact of this change may be to increase the number of mifepristone prescriber

Source:media.cnn.com

The short-term impact of this change will be limited to a few states. Initially, Walgreens will make it available only at a few of its pharmacies in a handful of states where abortion is still legal — New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California, and Illinois — and CVS will dispense the drug only at its pharmacies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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