Retail pharmacies must fill prescriptions for drugs that can terminate pregnancies under federal civil rights law, the Department of Health and Human Services said.
from HHS’s civil rights office says any pharmacy that refuses to fill prescriptions for drugs that can end pregnancies may be discriminating on the basis of disability or sex, which includes pregnancy-related discrimination.
HHS offered a few examples of possible discrimination, like refusing to fill mifepristone, which is commonly used for medication abortions but also are prescribed to patients who have had a miscarriage, withholding a rheumatoid arthritis patient’s prescription to methotrexate because induce miscarriages, and declining to fill drug prescriptions that were issued in connection to surgical abortions.pharmacies can’t refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control or emergency contraception because they could prevent pregnancies.HHS did not explain how—or whether—it plans to enforce this policy, or how pharmacists should contend with conflicting state laws.
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