Major Retailers Confirm They Are Not Selling Abortion Drug Despite Democrat Pressure
Two major retailers confirmed this week that they do not sell a popular abortion pill, despite pressure from Democratic officials to do so.
Both Kroger and Sam’s Club confirmed to The Daily Wire that they do not offer mifepristone for sale after screenshots posted online last month appeared to show the life-ending drug available for purchase. Mifepristone is now used in over half of all abortions and has been used across the country to bypass pro-life protections in Republican-led states.
The controversy emerged last month after pro-life organization Live Action reported that both Kroger and Sam’s Club had mifepristone, which is estimated to be used in over half of abortions, advertised on their websites.
An archived page from December 18 on Kroger’s website shows mifepristone listed for sale.
The company later told Live Action and The Washington Stand that the listing was a mistake. The retailer confirmed to The Daily Wire that it had never sold mifepristone, and that it was reviewing the FDA’s guidelines for the drug.
“Kroger Family of Pharmacies are reviewing the FDA’s updated Mifepristone Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy drug safety program,” a company spokesman said. “We will continue to align our dispensing practices with applicable federal and state laws.”
Another screenshot from Live Action showed that Sam’s Club appeared to also have mifepristone for sale on its website. The company, a division of Walmart, also said the posting was made in error.
“Regarding reports about details on our website, we use a third-party vendor to aggregate medication pricing, and their tool provided incorrect information,” a company spokesman told The Daily Wire.
The acknowledgment comes after a group of conservative and Christian shareholders organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom urged Kroger, Walmart, Costco, and other retailers not to sell the life-ending drug. This campaign came after New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said that retailers should make the abortion drug available.
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Jeremy Tedesco, the senior vice president of corporate engagement for Alliance Defending Freedom, celebrated the news, saying that it was a “great outcome” and that it could be a “really significant” change in how corporations deal with politically-charged issues.
He told The Daily Wire that abortion activists were “trying to co-opt the companies to advance their abortion agenda, regardless of what the law says. They want these companies to make abortion pills as widely available as possible.”
Tedesco added that until recently ”only the Left shows up for these battles with the corporations” but now conservatives’ push to directly engage with companies was making a difference.
He said that conservatives should want to neutralize companies on the issue of abortion, and that the companies should just focus on providing quality products.
“The Left’s primary goal in all of this is to make the political process irrelevant by regulating all through what corporations do and how they behave,” he said.
Alliance Defending Freedom has yet to receive any response from the companies it wrote to.