Texas is suing the Biden administration and asking a judge to block a rule requiring pharmacies to fill prescriptions for abortion pills.
However, a group of 20 state attorneys general -- led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey --to CVS and Walgreens warning that dispensing abortion pills by mail could be illegal.
"Federal law expressly prohibits using the mail to send or receive any drug that will 'be used or applied for producing abortion'," Bailey wrote. "The text could not be clearer: 'every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion…shall not be conveyed in the mails.' And anyone who 'knowingly takes any such thing from the mails for the purpose of circulating' is guilty of a federal crime.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to anti-abortion supporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court following arguments over a challenge to a Texas law that bans abortion after six weeks in Washington, D.C., Nov. 1, 2021.A lawsuit was filed in November by a conservative legal group asking that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone be revoked and that the drug be pulled from the market, claiming that the drug harms patients.
If the Texas judge rules in favor of the plaintiffs, there would be a nationwide injunction on mifepristone, affecting even states where the procedure is legal.
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