Two of the largest national pharmacy chains, Walgreens and CVS, have announced plans to begin offering abortion pills, after President Biden’s administration decided this week to let companies sell the deadly drug, mifepristone.
Previously, mifepristone – which prevents a placenta from providing nutrients and thereby effectively starves an unborn baby – could only be offered by medical offices, clinics and hospitals, or by a licensed physician who could supervise its effects on a pregnant woman’s health.
The FDA’s decision to greenlight the drug for widespread distribution comes as many red states have moved to ban or restrict abortions following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to nullify Roe v. Wade last year.
A Walgreens spokesperson told Axios this week that the company is actively working to make the chemical abortion drugs available in its stores, which includes 11 Alaska locations in Anchorage, Eagle River, Wasilla, Fairbanks, Soldotna.
Once the pills are ingested, there is, however, a way to reverse chemical abortions, and the pro-life HeartReach Center in Wasilla offers women and their unborn babies a second chance.
“We are working through the registration, necessary training of our pharmacists, as well as evaluating our pharmacy network in terms of where we normally dispense products that have extra FDA requirements and will dispense these consistent with federal and state laws,” the Walgreens spokesperson said.
CVS said they are also seeking to dispense mifepristone wherever they legally can. CVS has four Alaska locations spread across Anchorage and Wasilla.
Chemical abortions have been on the rise in Alaska and across the nation. According to the latest data from the State Department of Health, every week, roughly nine Alaska women ingest a powerful chemical concoction which first kills and then aborts their unborn babies.
Nationally, chemical abortions now comprise about 43% of all U.S. abortions. Alaska reported 442 chemical abortions using mifepristone in 2021, according to the Department of Health, and this is likely to increase under the new the Biden Administration rules.
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Once the pills are ingested, there is a way to reverse chemical abortions, and the pro-life HeartReach Center in Wasilla offers women and their unborn babies a second chance.
Heartbeat International, a national organization dedicated to providing women with alternatives to abortion, receives around 150 calls a month to their hotline for women seeking abortion reversal.
A few years ago, HeartReach staffers attended a local pro-life event and heard how easy the abortion reversal process was.
It’s all about using progesterone to outcompete the mifepristone blockers. Progesterone has been used for over 50 years helping women support their pregnancy, so they don’t miscarry, and it is considered very safe.
The treatment is 64-68% effective when taken within 72 hours after the mifepristone pill, according to a 2018 study by Dr. George Delgado, an advocate on the subject who observed a series of 754 women who underwent the process. His study also found zero risk of increased birth defects or preterm births.
LEARN MORE
— For more information about HeartReach Center, visit heartreachalaska.com.
— Heartbeat International can be found at heartbeatinternational.org.
— For information or help with abortion reversal, visit abortionpillreversal.com or call the at 1-855-209-4848.
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16 Comments
The article didn’t state but I’m assuming the pharmacies will have to have a physician’s prescription or is this an over the counter drug with instructions from the pharmacy?
Mifepristone requires a doctor’s prescription. Unlike Plan B, it will not be sold over the counter.
This is just going to far. There is no reason to get pregnant anymore. You either want the baby or don’t have sex. It’s not that difficult to figure it all out. Abstention is ok ladies! It’s way better than MURDER!
Everyone, who’d been part of that baby’s life, they don’t know how they are missing out, yet—
I wish we didn’t live along side such evil!
I believe the abortion pill should only be given to women who have already had a miscarriage. I’ve been blessed with 3 healthy babies and 1 miscarriage. Thankfully, I did not need a pill or any interventions during my miscarriage pregnancy. I know some women need the pill or that awful D&C procedure after a miscarriage occurs.
It should not be made easily available. I can see it now, people buying and keeping on hand for when someone around them “needs” it.
What a blessing to have reproductive options. God is good to provide us with this freedom.
Trolls at it again. Myabe your worldly god is “good” to you and provides you with options to murder one of Our Heavenly Father’s children; but, murder is a sin. Our Heavenly Father gives you the choice to abstain or get married and have children if the couple is blessed to get pregnant and bring one of Our Heavenly Father’s children into the world.
“Reproductive options?” Wow! There’s a watered down euphemism, if ever I’ve heard one! I call it murder. All abortions kill a baby. This one starves it to death.
Mark, Reproduction, The sexual or asexual process by which organisms generate new individuals of the same kind; procreation.
In no way do any of the definitions of reproduction define it as doing away with, killing, or having a “choice” about said organisms. Troll much? God is good all the time.
Yes, Mark, God does give us free will. The freedom to follow Him and have eternal life or to disregard His laws and get a sentence of eternal death . We can choose God or Satan. We already have reproductive rights as you put it. The right to have sex or abstain.
Thank you Walgreen’s and CVS for supporting the women of Alaska.
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Walgreens and CVS need to rethink their stand on this issue if they hope to continue business here and everywhere. People will eventually say that we have had enough of this ideology and put a stop to it.
Walgreens and CVS need to rethink their stand on this issue if they hope to continue business here and everywhere. People will eventually say that we have had enough of this ideology and put a stop to it.
Try to fill a prescription for ivermectin, you get shunned as if you’re using an incorrect pronoun or something…..