CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens are in the cross-hairs for stocking chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostal after the abortion-supporting U.S. Justice Department said doing so does not violate the Comstock Act.
One of the organizations urging the pharmacies to reconsider is the Family Research Council, where Joy Stockbauer is a policy analyst at the Center for Human Dignity.
“First and foremost, we know that abortion takes the life of an innocent human being,” she says. “And we do not believe that retail pharmacies, who are supposed to be in the business of healing people and ending illness, and curing suffering, should take themselves into the business of intentionally ending the lives of unborn children."
Family Research Council has signed its name to a letter pleading with the pharmacy chains to stop acting as "de-facto abortion centers" by dispensing abortion-inducing drugs.
Earlier this week, Republican attorneys general from 20 states fired off a letter to executives at Walgreens and CVS warning them distributing the abortion pills through the mail is "both unsafe and illegal."
The letter mentions the Comstock Act and insists the pharmacy chains are taking action based on the opinion of the Biden administration. "We reject the Biden administration’s bizarre interpretation, and we expect courts will as well," the letter states.
According to Stockbauer, beyond the emotional trauma women experience after killing the fetus, the abortion drugs have been proven to be more dangerous than in-clinic surgical abortions.
“So there's both a physical element and a psychological and emotional element,” she warns, “both of which the abortion industry is lying to women about."
