“Obviously, a federal criminal law – especially one that is, as here, enforceable through a private right of action – deserves serious contemplation,” the letters state.
arguing that the companies’ plans to send abortion pills through the mail is illegal under state and federal law.
The Food and Drug Administration had previously required mifepristone – the first of a two-drug regimen that’s used in many first-trimester abortions – to be dispensed only by clinics. The identical letters to CVS and Walgreens cite a federal law that says every article intended for inducing an abortion cannot be sent by mail. Violating the law is a federal crime, they wrote, and the pharmacies can be sued in civil court.
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