The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration released a statement last week stating that Florida law continues to prevent women from obtaining mifepristone at pharmacies. The agency cited two Florida statutes that it says prohibits the abortion pill at pharmacies.
The Florida agency stated that “willfully violating these provisions could result in criminal penalties” and vowed to refer “any evidence of criminal activity” to local law enforcement.
The statement follows the FDA’s announcement that it modified the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies for mifepristone to enable the pill to “be dispensed by certain pharmacies or under the certification of a certified prescriber.”
The prevalence of chemical abortions has grown over the years as it now accounts for more than half of abortions in the United States.
The chemical abortion drug regimen consists of two drugs. Mifepristone is a synthetic steroid endocrine disruptor that starves the baby to death.
In addition to mifepristone alone, which works less than 25% of the time to complete the abortion, the FDA mandates using misoprostol to expel the baby from the womb.
Two major pharmacy chains have already embraced the idea of dispensing mifepristone at their stores across the U.S., those are Walgreens and CVS.