One simple way we can speak out against companies willing to profit from abortion is by being intentional about where we take our prescription drug business.
Whether it’s a national chain or a neighborhood establishment, each pharmacy makes a decision as to whether they will offer chemical abortion pills among the drugs it offers.
Just as many people of faith opt to not support politicians who promote or fund abortion, it’s now before us to consider where we take their prescriptions when we learn that our pharmacies offer abortion pills.
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When abortion pills became available with no in-person doctor visit required – lots of pharmacies jumped on the bandwagon.
That included Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS, and Sam’s Club. Kroger and Sam’s Club had removed the pills from their websites as of December 2024. Walmart had indicated it was re-evaluating at one point as well.
Mifepristone is approved in the U.S. to abort unborn babies up to 10 weeks of pregnancy – although some abortionists use it later.
Besides the deaths of millions of unborn babies, the FDA’s own data shows at least 28 women’s deaths and 4,000 serious complications from the abortion drug.
Unfortunately, the FDA stopped requiring that non-fatal complications from mifepristone be reported.
Abortion drug emergencies are more common than what abortion activists often claim.
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A study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the rate of abortion-related emergency room visits by women taking the abortion drug increased more than 500 percent between 2002 and 2015.
Safety concerns beyond the minor side effects as compiled by the CLI in its Risks and Complications of Chemical Abortion Fact Sheet include:
Chemical abortion has a complication rate four times that of surgical abortion, and as many as one in five women will suffer a complication.
As many as 15% of women will experience hemorrhage, and 2% will have an infection. The risk of incomplete abortion and infection increases with increasing gestational age.
Chemical abortion drugs are increasingly likely to send women to the emergency room (ER): in a study of the Medicaid population in states that fund abortion for low-income women, the rate of chemical abortion-related emergency room visits increased over 500% between 2002-2015.
Chemical abortions are over 50% more likely than surgical abortions to result in an ER visit within 30 days, with one woman experiencing an abortion-related ER visit for every 20 chemical abortions.
CLI’s data covers social and emotional risks and risks specific to abortion-by-mail as well.
Another study from the University of Toronto, “Short-Term Adverse Outcomes After Mifepristone–Misoprostol Versus Procedural Induced Abortion,” published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that one in ten women who took the abortion pill had to go to the emergency room.
Just this week the Ethics and Public Policy Center released a study with data from insurance data that showed the abortion pill is 22 times more dangerous than previously acknowledged by the FDA.
There are thousands of local, independent pharmacies across the country. There are ways to find out if they’re profiting from the sale of abortion pills.
It can be as simple as asking, “Does your pharmacy carry abortion pills?”
Creating a list of area pharmacies that do not sell abortion pills is a simple pro-life effort for church and local pro-life groups that can be distributed at meetings, churches, to those praying at abortion centers, and by email.
We want to speak with a pro-life voice with our hard-earned dollars.
And we should applaud and promote stores that intentionally choose to not carry the abortion drug.
