Gov. Gavin Newsom said California will 'leverage our market power to defend the right to choose' as the state chose not to renew the contract with Walgreens.
that the state was "done" doing business with Walgreens. California used the contract to buy specialty prescription drugs for the prison system. The state is reviewing all of its business contracts with Walgreens.
Walgreens said it will sell the abortion pill, mifepristone, in any state where it is "legally permissible to do so." Republican attorneys general in 21 states warned Walgreens in February that selling or distributing the abortion pill in their states would violate local laws.
At least 12 states have banned abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Several other statesWalgreens is also not selling the abortion pill in states like Alaska, Kansas or Montana where abortion is protected as a right under the states' constitutions. The drug store will also not sell mifepristone in Iowa, where the state Supreme Court last year overturned state constitutional protections for abortion.
Alaska requires patients to get the pill from a doctor. In Kansas, the state had required patients to obtain the abortion pill in person from a physician, but a state court blocked that law in November. Montana's requirement that patients visit a doctor to get mifepristone is also temporarily blocked by a court.
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