Democratic Senators Call Walgreens’ Decision Not to Sell Abortion Pill to Some States ‘Pandering’ to ‘Extremism’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with five other U.S. senators, sent a letter to Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer on Tuesday, demanding clarification and expressing “grave concern” about the company’s recently announced abortion pill distribution plan.
The letter (pdf) followed recent news that Walgreens, the second-largest pharmacy chain in the United States, made the decision not to dispense the pills—either by mail or at its brick-and-mortar locations—in any of the 20-plus states where “extremist, right-wing” Republican attorneys general threatened the company with legal action if the pills were mailed in their states, the letter said.
In some of those Republican-led states, medical abortion remains legal, the letter explained….}