{"id":12291,"date":"2024-03-02T18:17:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T12:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/cvs-walgreens-offering-abortion-pills\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T12:47:41","slug":"cvs-walgreens-offering-abortion-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/cvs-walgreens-offering-abortion-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"CVS, Walgreens Offering Abortion Pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens are offering mifepristone to customers in 6 Democratic states.<\/p>\n<p>Mifepristone, an abortion pill, allows women to end their pregnancy without seeking a clinic.<\/p>\n<p>CVS will sell the drug in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, while Walgreens will sell the drug in New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith major retail pharmacy chains now certified to dispense mifepristone, many women will soon have a new option for accessing prescribed FDA-approved medication abortion,\u201d Biden said on the POTUS X account. \u201cI encourage all pharmacies that want to pursue this option to seek certification and help ensure that women can access the health care they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With major retail pharmacy chains now certified to dispense mifepristone, many women will soon have a new option for accessing prescribed FDA-approved medication abortion.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage all pharmacies that want to pursue this option to seek certification and help ensure that women\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1763670922756595924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CVS spokeswoman Amy Thibault told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/01\/health\/abortion-pills-cvs-walgreens.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a> that the drugs will come to stores \u201cin the weeks ahead.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe continually monitor and evaluate changes in state laws and will dispense mifepristone in any state where it is or becomes legally permissible to do so,\u201d Thibault added.<\/p>\n<p>American Faith <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/nyc-mayor-launches-virtual-abortion-on-demand-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in October that New York City launched a virtual abortion-on-demand program.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Adams stated, \u201cHere in New York City, we will not allow the far right to continue its crusade to strip women of their reproductive rights,\u201d elaborating that New Yorkers can now access \u201cabortion care\u201d from their homes through telehealth consultations under the city\u2019s \u201cVirtual Express Care\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p>This program, available seven days a week from 9am to 9pm, facilitates virtual consultations for women up to 10 weeks pregnant seeking medical abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Following the online appointment, if the treatment is deemed \u201cclinically appropriate and prescribed,\u201d the necessary pills will be shipped to the patient\u2019s address \u201cwithin a few days,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/cvs-walgreens-offering-abortion-pills\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens are offering mifepristone to customers in 6 Democratic states. Mifepristone, an abortion pill, allows women to end their pregnancy without seeking a clinic. CVS will sell the drug in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, while Walgreens will sell the drug in New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. \u201cWith major retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}