US To Allow Retail Pharmacies To Sell Abortion Pills

Pharmacies might want to obtain certification to dispense the drug. (Representational)

Washington:

Retail pharmacies in the USA can be permitted to promote abortion capsules, well being officers stated Tuesday, a transfer that might considerably develop entry to the process after final yr’s landmark Supreme Court docket ruling that overturned federal abortion rights.

Regulatory modifications introduced by the Meals and Drug Administration imply that mifepristone, which is the primary of two medicine used to terminate a being pregnant, can be accessible in native drug shops in states the place abortion is permitted.

A health care provider’s prescription can be wanted to acquire the capsules, which had been beforehand solely accessible from a number of mail-order pharmacies or licensed docs and clinics.

Demand for abortion capsules has risen for the reason that conservative-dominated Supreme Court docket made a landmark ruling final June that overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 case that had assured girls’s proper to an abortion for half a century.

Abortion capsules are already utilized in greater than half of US procedures to terminate a being pregnant, consultants say, and so they have more and more turn into a spotlight within the political and authorized battle for abortion rights for the reason that Supreme Court docket’s controversial determination.

Pharmacies might want to obtain certification to dispense the drug, whereas sufferers might want to full a consent kind.

The FDA’s determination was welcomed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

“We’re blissful the FDA has elevated pharmacy entry to this secure and efficient remedy, relieving one of many company’s pointless burdens on mifepristone sufferers,” stated Julia Kaye of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Undertaking.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Checklist slammed the choice.

“The Biden administration has as soon as once more proved that it values abortion business earnings over girls’s security and unborn youngsters’s lives,” Dannenfelser stated in an announcement.

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