Unlawfully distribute abortion pills by mail.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (February 6, 2023) – Attorney General Daniel Cameron joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in sending a letter to CVS Health (CVS) and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Walgreens) to stop the companies’ plan to unlawfully distribute abortion pills by mail.
“Having failed to halt the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Biden Administration is now promoting its abortion priorities by misinterpreting federal laws that clearly prohibit distributing abortion drugs by mail,” said Attorney General Cameron. “Mailing abortion medication places the health of mothers at risk and could increase the number of coerced abortions. We will not stand by and allow the Biden Administration to disregard federal law to advance its political agenda.”
After the Biden administration issued an unsound legal opinion for 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.
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. 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 points out that “abortion pills are far riskier than surgical abortions,” and according to medical consensus are “5.96 times as likely to result in a complication as first-trimester aspiration abortions.” Mail-order abortion pills could also lead to an increase in coerced abortions due to lack of oversight.
Attorney General 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.
To read the letter to CVS, click here and to see the letter to Walgreens, click here.
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