Wed Mar 1, 2023 – 4:39 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – The attorneys general of 19 states are warning Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and other major retailers with pharmacy departments that, contrary to recent guidance from the Biden administration, dispensing abortion pills by mail remains illegal and carries serious consequences.
“We write to advise you of why the FDA’s invitation is unlawful and risky and to urge you to continue rejecting it,” reads the letter, Fox Business reports. “[Y]ou may not yet be aware that federal law expressly prohibits using the mail to send or receive any drug that will ‘be used or applied for producing abortion.’”
The letter was signed by the top law enforcement executives of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, allowing states to directly ban abortion and reactivating numerous old abortion laws, the abortion lobby and its Democrat allies have been scrambling to enact a number of strategies to preserve abortion “access” across state lines.
Among those moves was the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) eliminating the requirement
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