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Abortion Pill·By Carole Novielli
Is your pharmacy dispensing abortion pills?
Over 6,000 pharmacies are now willing to dispense abortion pills to end the life of a baby in the womb. But how would a pro-life advocate know if their pharmacy is in the business of abortion?
More than 6,000 pharmacies are now dispensing the abortion pill.
Pro-lifers can learn if their pharmacy has become an abortion business by checking the manufacturer websites or visiting an online search tool created by a pro-abortion group.
CVS, Walgreens, and countless independent pharmacies sell the abortion pill.
Live Action News has assembled the information below as an educational tool for those who might want to know if the pharmacy they use dispenses abortion drugs.
The abortion pill Mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex targets the preborn child in the womb by starving her of important nutrients. A second drug, misoprostol, is then used off-label to induce violent cramping and expel the dead baby.
Manufacturers of the abortion pill publish a list of pharmacies they have certified, but it only includes the ones willing to go public.
Larger chains like CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens have already joined the abortion industry to dispense the deadly drug in states where it is legal to do so.
Mifeprex manufacturer Danco's website lists these pharmacies as dispensing the abortion pill:
CVS Pharmacy is currently dispensing in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, HI, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NV, NM, NY, OR, PA, RI, VA, VT, WA
Denver Health Discharge Pharmacy (Denver, CO)
Pavilion Pharmacy UC Davis (Sacramento, CA)
Pucci’s Pharmacy (Sacramento, CA)
Schraft’s (Cedar Knolls, NJ)
Southwest Health Systems Pharmacy (Cortez, CO)
T&T Pharmacy (Los Angeles, CA)
Walgreens (Multiple States)
Danco adds that "Not all certified pharmacies dispensing MIFEPREX have elected to be listed here..."
GenBioPro's website also lists multiple independent pharmacies by state, along with:
CVS Pharmacy: Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington.
Mail-order pharmacies ArloRx and Honeybee Health.
Another option for pro-lifers seeking to learn if their pharmacy dispenses the abortion pill is to use online search engines created by abortion insiders.
Medication Abortion Pharmacy is an online search engine directing women to pharmacies willing to dispense abortion drugs. It offers a search tool by zip code that includes a pharmacy that "self-reported offering mifepristone and misoprostol dispensing."
Medication Abortion Pharmacy appears to be a project of Birth Control Pharmacist (BCP), according to archived web pages.
BCP was founded by Dr. Sally Rafie, a consultant for generic abortion pill manufacturer GenBioPro, with help from a grant by Society for Family Planning (SFP). Rafie has served as a pharmacist at UC San Diego and a former pharmacist consultant for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest.
Medication Abortion Pharmacy states online:
Some states have restrictions on if pharmacies can provide mifepristone (the first step used in medication abortion). All pharmacies can supply misoprostol (the second step used in medication abortion). You can also use misoprostol alone to have an abortion.
The website is also a collaborative effort of the Pharmacists Care Initiative, which stands for "Pharmacists Comprehensive Abortion and Reproductive Health Empowerment (Pharmacists CARE) Initiative."
According to the website, the Initiative:
[] aims to expand access to medication abortion and comprehensive reproductive health services in California pharmacies and beyond. This includes the development of training programs and an implementation toolkit for pharmacies to become certified to dispense medications and provide the full range of reproductive health services, as well as a mini-grants to support pharmacies in establishing new services.
Some of the effort has been "supported by funding from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information to support the expansion of pharmacist-provided reproductive health services in California," the website also stated.
The abortion pill (mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex) was approved in 2000 and has only ever been approved for the termination of pregnancy (abortion). It was eventually placed under a REMS safety system to monitor dangerous adverse events and could only be dispensed in person by a licensed medical doctor or clinician.
Those safeguards were later eroded in 2023 to allow the drugs to be dispensed by pharmacies and by mail-order.
To be able to sell or dispense the abortion pill, you must first be certified under a safety system put in place by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) called REMS. Those tasked with policing prescribers (clinicians and doctors) as well as dispensing pharmacies are the U.S. manufacturers: Danco Laboratories, GenBioPro (GBP), and Evita Solutions.
There are now an estimated 8,200 prescribers and 6,000 pharmacies (likely more) certified to either prescribe or dispense the abortion pill. The prescriber numbers represent just one percent (1%) of licensed physicians.
Pharmacy certification by manufacturer breaks down as follows:
Danco Laboratories — 5,927
GenBioPro (GBP) — 127
Evita Solutions, LLC — 2
The above data comes from correspondence between abortion pill manufacturers Danco Laboratories, GenBioPro (GBP), and Evita Solutions to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and published in an August report entitled, "Mifepristone Without Guardrails: An Investigation Into How Chemical Abortion Drug Makers Are Putting Mothers and Babies At Risk."
Live Action News has documented multiple ways pro-life Americans are pushing back on abortion pill expansions, including an initiative led by John Pisciotta in March of 2023. Pro-Life Waco began a regular Pharmacy Outreach where peaceful pro-lifers hold signs outside CVS and Walgreens to let customers know they are part of the abortion industry now.
In addition, shareholder letters were previously sent to Costco, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and McKesson calling on C-suite leaders to resist political pressure to begin selling chemical abortion drugs at their pharmacies.
Days after Live Action News reported that both Kroger and Sam’s Club were displaying the abortion pill for sale on their pharmacy websites, the grocery store giants issued statements denying any connection to abortion. They insisted that the abortion drug was displayed for sale on their websites due to “errors” in drug listings by “third-party vendors,” which the pharmacies use to “aggregate medication pricing.”
Pro-life shareholders recently told FedEx that it should look into how abortion advocates are using its services to ship abortion pills and should consider prohibiting such use.
The abortion pill has a black box warning for sepsis and hemorrhaging, as well as infection, which is rarely discussed (if at all) by mainstream media. The removal of the in-person dispensing of the drug rule means women are likely not receiving the proper informed consent before taking the deadly pill regimen.
Abortion pill prescribers regularly violate the REMS safety protocols by failing to:
Rule out ectopic pregnancies
Verify pregnancy/gestational age
Handle complications or refer to someone who can
Instead, they prescribe the drug past FDA-approved limits, without a confirmed pregnancy, and advise women to lie to medical personnel if they experience complications. When women show up at the pharmacy counter, they are likely not fully informed of all the dangers.
If women are not properly consented by prescribers, are then sent to a pharmacy to pick up the drugs, and subsequently experience an adverse event, that pharmacy company could be exposing its business to potential legal risk, should a medical malpractice lawsuit ensue.
Live Action News previously documented:
The FDA’s 2023 mifepristone label acknowledged that 2.9 to 4.6% of women who take the drug require emergency care, and six percent (6%) who took the abortion pill in a telehealth study required emergency care. That is an estimated 21.3K to 44K women a year.
The manufacturer’s medication guide notes that up to seven percent (7%) of women will “need a surgical procedure” to complete the abortion. That is likely an estimated 15K to 51.4K abortions that fail annually.
A more recent analysis, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women,” published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), found that nearly 11% of women (10.93%) experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other serious or life-threatening adverse events following a mifepristone abortion.
Profitable abortion pill manufacturers are contractually required under REMS to decertify prescribers who are out of compliance, but these manufacturers admitted to the Senate HELP Committee that they have not decertified a single one, despite their disregard for the safety rules.
So far, the FDA appears to have done little in response to this.
Pharmacies should be a place the public can trust to promote their health and healing, but when they enter into the realm of abortion, they are doing the opposite.
The FDA reports that 7.5 million women used the abortion pill between 2000 and 2024.
In June, the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute updated its national abortion estimates for 2025, increasing estimated abortion pill totals to 734,435. This equates to:
61,203 abortions by pill per month
2,012 per day
84 per hour
One abortion pill abortion every 43 seconds
These are real human beings whose lives are being ended.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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·Abortion Pill·By Carole Novielli
Is your pharmacy dispensing abortion pills?
Over 6,000 pharmacies are now willing to dispense abortion pills to end the life of a baby in the womb. But how would a pro-life advocate know if their pharmacy is in the business of abortion?
More than 6,000 pharmacies are now dispensing the abortion pill.
Pro-lifers can learn if their pharmacy has become an abortion business by checking the manufacturer websites or visiting an online search tool created by a pro-abortion group.
CVS, Walgreens, and countless independent pharmacies sell the abortion pill.
Live Action News has assembled the information below as an educational tool for those who might want to know if the pharmacy they use dispenses abortion drugs.
The abortion pill Mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex targets the preborn child in the womb by starving her of important nutrients. A second drug, misoprostol, is then used off-label to induce violent cramping and expel the dead baby.
Manufacturers of the abortion pill publish a list of pharmacies they have certified, but it only includes the ones willing to go public.
Larger chains like CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens have already joined the abortion industry to dispense the deadly drug in states where it is legal to do so.
Mifeprex manufacturer Danco's website lists these pharmacies as dispensing the abortion pill:
CVS Pharmacy is currently dispensing in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, HI, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NV, NM, NY, OR, PA, RI, VA, VT, WA
Denver Health Discharge Pharmacy (Denver, CO)
Pavilion Pharmacy UC Davis (Sacramento, CA)
Pucci’s Pharmacy (Sacramento, CA)
Schraft’s (Cedar Knolls, NJ)
Southwest Health Systems Pharmacy (Cortez, CO)
T&T Pharmacy (Los Angeles, CA)
Walgreens (Multiple States)
Danco adds that "Not all certified pharmacies dispensing MIFEPREX have elected to be listed here..."
GenBioPro's website also lists multiple independent pharmacies by state, along with:
CVS Pharmacy: Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington.
Mail-order pharmacies ArloRx and Honeybee Health.
Another option for pro-lifers seeking to learn if their pharmacy dispenses the abortion pill is to use online search engines created by abortion insiders.
Medication Abortion Pharmacy is an online search engine directing women to pharmacies willing to dispense abortion drugs. It offers a search tool by zip code that includes a pharmacy that "self-reported offering mifepristone and misoprostol dispensing."
Medication Abortion Pharmacy appears to be a project of Birth Control Pharmacist (BCP), according to archived web pages.
BCP was founded by Dr. Sally Rafie, a consultant for generic abortion pill manufacturer GenBioPro, with help from a grant by Society for Family Planning (SFP). Rafie has served as a pharmacist at UC San Diego and a former pharmacist consultant for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest.
Medication Abortion Pharmacy states online:
Some states have restrictions on if pharmacies can provide mifepristone (the first step used in medication abortion). All pharmacies can supply misoprostol (the second step used in medication abortion). You can also use misoprostol alone to have an abortion.
The website is also a collaborative effort of the Pharmacists Care Initiative, which stands for "Pharmacists Comprehensive Abortion and Reproductive Health Empowerment (Pharmacists CARE) Initiative."
According to the website, the Initiative:
[] aims to expand access to medication abortion and comprehensive reproductive health services in California pharmacies and beyond. This includes the development of training programs and an implementation toolkit for pharmacies to become certified to dispense medications and provide the full range of reproductive health services, as well as a mini-grants to support pharmacies in establishing new services.
Some of the effort has been "supported by funding from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information to support the expansion of pharmacist-provided reproductive health services in California," the website also stated.
The abortion pill (mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex) was approved in 2000 and has only ever been approved for the termination of pregnancy (abortion). It was eventually placed under a REMS safety system to monitor dangerous adverse events and could only be dispensed in person by a licensed medical doctor or clinician.
Those safeguards were later eroded in 2023 to allow the drugs to be dispensed by pharmacies and by mail-order.
To be able to sell or dispense the abortion pill, you must first be certified under a safety system put in place by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) called REMS. Those tasked with policing prescribers (clinicians and doctors) as well as dispensing pharmacies are the U.S. manufacturers: Danco Laboratories, GenBioPro (GBP), and Evita Solutions.
There are now an estimated 8,200 prescribers and 6,000 pharmacies (likely more) certified to either prescribe or dispense the abortion pill. The prescriber numbers represent just one percent (1%) of licensed physicians.
Pharmacy certification by manufacturer breaks down as follows:
Danco Laboratories — 5,927
GenBioPro (GBP) — 127
Evita Solutions, LLC — 2
The above data comes from correspondence between abortion pill manufacturers Danco Laboratories, GenBioPro (GBP), and Evita Solutions to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and published in an August report entitled, "Mifepristone Without Guardrails: An Investigation Into How Chemical Abortion Drug Makers Are Putting Mothers and Babies At Risk."
Live Action News has documented multiple ways pro-life Americans are pushing back on abortion pill expansions, including an initiative led by John Pisciotta in March of 2023. Pro-Life Waco began a regular Pharmacy Outreach where peaceful pro-lifers hold signs outside CVS and Walgreens to let customers know they are part of the abortion industry now.
In addition, shareholder letters were previously sent to Costco, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and McKesson calling on C-suite leaders to resist political pressure to begin selling chemical abortion drugs at their pharmacies.
Days after Live Action News reported that both Kroger and Sam’s Club were displaying the abortion pill for sale on their pharmacy websites, the grocery store giants issued statements denying any connection to abortion. They insisted that the abortion drug was displayed for sale on their websites due to “errors” in drug listings by “third-party vendors,” which the pharmacies use to “aggregate medication pricing.”
Pro-life shareholders recently told FedEx that it should look into how abortion advocates are using its services to ship abortion pills and should consider prohibiting such use.
The abortion pill has a black box warning for sepsis and hemorrhaging, as well as infection, which is rarely discussed (if at all) by mainstream media. The removal of the in-person dispensing of the drug rule means women are likely not receiving the proper informed consent before taking the deadly pill regimen.
Abortion pill prescribers regularly violate the REMS safety protocols by failing to:
Rule out ectopic pregnancies
Verify pregnancy/gestational age
Handle complications or refer to someone who can
Instead, they prescribe the drug past FDA-approved limits, without a confirmed pregnancy, and advise women to lie to medical personnel if they experience complications. When women show up at the pharmacy counter, they are likely not fully informed of all the dangers.
If women are not properly consented by prescribers, are then sent to a pharmacy to pick up the drugs, and subsequently experience an adverse event, that pharmacy company could be exposing its business to potential legal risk, should a medical malpractice lawsuit ensue.
Live Action News previously documented:
The FDA’s 2023 mifepristone label acknowledged that 2.9 to 4.6% of women who take the drug require emergency care, and six percent (6%) who took the abortion pill in a telehealth study required emergency care. That is an estimated 21.3K to 44K women a year.
The manufacturer’s medication guide notes that up to seven percent (7%) of women will “need a surgical procedure” to complete the abortion. That is likely an estimated 15K to 51.4K abortions that fail annually.
A more recent analysis, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women,” published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), found that nearly 11% of women (10.93%) experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other serious or life-threatening adverse events following a mifepristone abortion.
Profitable abortion pill manufacturers are contractually required under REMS to decertify prescribers who are out of compliance, but these manufacturers admitted to the Senate HELP Committee that they have not decertified a single one, despite their disregard for the safety rules.
So far, the FDA appears to have done little in response to this.
Pharmacies should be a place the public can trust to promote their health and healing, but when they enter into the realm of abortion, they are doing the opposite.
The FDA reports that 7.5 million women used the abortion pill between 2000 and 2024.
In June, the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute updated its national abortion estimates for 2025, increasing estimated abortion pill totals to 734,435. This equates to:
61,203 abortions by pill per month
2,012 per day
84 per hour
One abortion pill abortion every 43 seconds
These are real human beings whose lives are being ended.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
Contact editor@liveaction.org for questions, corrections, or if you are seeking permission to reprint any Live Action News content.
Guest Articles: To submit a guest article to Live Action News, email editor@liveaction.org with an attached Word document of 800-1000 words. Please also attach any photos relevant to your submission if applicable. If your submission is accepted for publication, you will be notified within three weeks. Guest articles are not compensated (see our Open License Agreement). Thank you for your interest in Live Action News!
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