The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office has joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in sending letters to CVS and Walgreens to encourage the companies to stop distributing abortion pills by mail.
After the Biden administration issued a legal opinion to the U.S. Postal Service about the relevant federal law, which prohibits using the mail to send or receive any drug that will “be used or applied for producing abortion,” CVS and Walgreens announced plans to obtain and sell abortion pills through the mail.
“Mailing abortion medication places the health of mothers at risk and could increase the number of coerced abortions,” Attorney General Daniel Cameron said.
In their letter, the attorneys general informed CVS and Walgreens that the Biden Administration has misinterpreted federal law. The coalition writes, “Although many people are unfamiliar with this statute because it has not been amended in a few decades, the text could not be clearer: ‘every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion … shall not be conveyed in the mails.’”
The attorneys general also warned that the practice of sending abortion pills by mail may violate the laws of many states across the country, the attorney general’s office said. In Kentucky, the Human Life Protection Act prohibits “procur[ing] for” or “sell[ing] to any pregnant woman any medicine, drug, or other substance with the specific intent” of causing an abortion.
The coalition also claims that mail-order abortion pills could lead to an increase in coerced abortions due to lack of oversight.
Cameron was joined by attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia in sending the letter.
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By Ken Howlett, News Director
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