Now that drugstores can distribute abortion pills, activists are pursuing protests and protections for anti-abortion pharmacists
, anti-abortion activists are focusing on large pharmacy chains that should quickly get certified to distribute the drugs:
Anti-abortion advocates are organizing pickets outside CVS and Walgreens in early February in at least eight cities, including Washington, D.C., in response to the companies’ plans to take advantage of the Food and Drug Administration’sallowing retail pharmacies to stock and dispense abortion pills in states where they’re legal.
The demonstrations aim to bring the same chants, signs and tense confrontations to drug store parking lots that groups have long used to try to deter visits to abortion clinics. The protests will coincide with a call-in campaign and planned national boycott of the chains. While the effectiveness of hassling and inconveniencing pharmacy patrons who aren’t there to get abortion drugs at all may be questionable, it’s likely a secondary goal is to provide cover for pharmacists and their assistants who refuse to have anything to do with the distribution of the pills. This will build on long-standing efforts to obtain
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