The title says it all. Walgreens and CVS are selling abortion drugs, and there is a connection to the Biden administration. Let’s see the story and then take a look at what you should know about these drugs. After all, you might get into a conversation about this story, and I want you to have the facts.

Here’s the story from Daily Wire:

Pro-life advocates slammed a decision on Friday from pharmacy giants Walgreens and CVS to begin selling abortion pills.

Both retailers announced that they would start selling mifepristone, the pill that is used in over half of all abortions, at certain locations. The announcement, which was applauded by the Biden administration, comes ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on whether the FDA improperly approved mifepristone and other restrictions on the pill.

“As two of the world’s largest, most trusted ‘health’ brands, the decision by CVS and Walgreens to sell dangerous abortion drugs is shameful, and the harm to unborn babies and their mothers incalculable,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s State Policy Director Katie Daniel said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire. “This reckless policy was made possible by the Biden administration, which is pushing to turn every pharmacy and post office in America into an abortion center for the sake of abortion industry greed.”

[…]President Joe Biden called the decision a “major milestone” in a statement praising the move.

Why is this important? Well, after the repeal of abortion on demand through all 9 months of pregnancy at the Supreme Court, abortion activists like Joe Biden have been looking for a way around the ruling. And shipping abortion drugs across state lines is one way for them to do it:

Medication abortion has increasingly become a more common form of abortion, especially in states that have sought to ban abortion. Activist networks have been shipping foreign-made abortion drugs in red states to bypass state laws protecting the unborn.

So, when it comes to this issue, I like to look for the peer-reviewed research. What is this drug? Should they be selling it? Are they liable if something bad happens to the mother?

Well, I have good news, and bad news. The good news is that there is published journal articles that discuss the risks of this drug. The bad news is that the journals decided – right before they went on sale – that these papers were very, very bad.

Daily Wire has that story as well:

Major scientific studies on the potential harm of abortion pills were retracted on Monday by their publisher, just weeks before the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the availability of such drugs.

Three studies, including two on the potential harms of the abortion pill just, were retracted on Monday by Sage Publishing, an independent academic publishing company.

[…]The authors of the studies say the retractions are a politically-motivated effort to discredit research that was cited in U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s April 2023 decision to suspend approval of mifepristone, the drug used in roughly half of all abortions in the United States. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in March on the legality of restricting the abortion pill based on Kacsmaryk’s ruling, proceedings that will certainly be impacted by the retractions.

Dr. James Studnicki, a listed author on all three studies in question, told The Daily Wire that the retractions were “completely unjustified” and that the retractions were meant to discredit scientific research that challenged the pro-abortion bias engrained in academia.

Studnicki, who trained at Johns Hopkins University and has spent decades conducting scientific research, said that he and his fellow researchers were targeted “because of the visibility of our work, because of the fact that our work was having such an influence on the discussion about abortion that was occurring in the states and in the courts at the highest levels.”

OK, great. Show me the numbers.

One of the now-retracted studies, published November 9, 2021, found that the rate of emergency room visits following chemical abortions had spiked 500% from 2002-2015, according to Medicaid claims data. Another one of the studies, published May 20, 2022, analyzed the likelihood of recurring emergency room visits for women who did not disclose to doctors that they had a chemical abortion.

These two studies were cited in Kacsmaryk’s decision to suspend FDA approval of mifepristone.

So what should happen?

Well, red states should just pass laws that allow people who take these drugs to sue the companies if there are complications. Or, they can just go after the businesses, if they choose to ship drugs into states that have banned late-term abortions. I would expect that states like Florida and Oklahoma will take the lead on this. Ron DeSantis has shown that he’s been willing to go after companies that try to mess with Florida’s conservative laws. He’ll probably go first. I’ll keep an eye out, and update you if anything happens.

In the meantime, stop shopping at CVS and Walgreens. I already have. They don’t deserve your business. Just keep driving and go somewhere else.