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Kansas state officials have prohibited Walgreens from selling the abortion Kill Pill in Kansas [1]. Several chains, including Walgreens, CVS, and RiteAid, decided to sell abortion drugs after the Biden administration dropped certain regulations.
Kansas State Attorney General Kris Kobach warned Walgreens that selling the drugs would violate state and federal laws. As a response, Walgreens said they would not be sending abortion Kill Pills to Kansas.
What About Missouri?
Attorney General Andrew Bailey of Missouri and 19 other attorneys general signed a letter warning that selling abortion pills would violate federal law as well as state abortion laws. In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Missouri implemented strict abortion restrictions last summer.
If pharmacies begin selling abortion pills to Missourians by mail, Bailey wasn’t specific about what legal action he would take. Bailey did say,
I will enforce the laws as written. The people’s elected representatives have spoken on the issue of abortion in our state, and we will fight to uphold that in court [2].
Missouri leads a group of nineteen states which are opposing this mail-order abortifacient. Bailey wrote a letter signed by all nineteen AGs. According to a press release from Missouri Attorney General Bailey, this letter states that.
Federal law expressly prohibits using the mail to send or receive any drug that will ‘be used or applied for producing abortion [3].
Opponents
A physician and a company that makes the pill mifepristone (abortion kill pill) filed separate lawsuits last month seeking to strike down bans in North Carolina and West Virginia.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Walgreens said the company is not currently dispensing mifepristone. However, they are working to become eligible through an FDA-mandated certification process.
