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Walgreens and CVS pharmacies in select states will begin selling the abortion pill mifepristone as soon as next week‚ the companies announced Friday. Both pharmacy chains completed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) certification process to dispense mifepristone‚ which is a drug that blocks the hormone progesterone needed for a pregnancy to continue. It is commonly used to end a pregnancy through ten weeks gestation‚ according to the FDA. Walgreens...

Pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens will begin selling mifepristone‚ an abortifacient drug‚ in stores in certain states in late March. CVS will make the pill available in all its pharmacies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island this month‚ while Walgreens will sell mifepristone in a small number of storefronts in California‚ Illinois‚ Massachusetts‚ New York‚ and Pennsylvania‚ the New York Times reported Friday. Fraser Engerman‚ a Walgreens spokesman‚ told the Times that the...

The two largest pharmacy chains in the United States will start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone this month‚ a step that could make access easier for some patients. Officials at CVS and Walgreens said in interviews on Friday that they had received certification to dispense mifepristone under guidelines that the Food and Drug Administration issued last year. The chains plan to make the medication available in stores in a handful of states at first. They will not be providing the...