SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Governor JB Pritzker is joining mostly Democratic governors from other states in urging pharmacies to make clear their stance on making abortion pills available to customers.
This, after Illinois-based Walgreens announced it won’t make the pill available in a number of states threatened legal action if the pill was made available there.
“What do they intend to do?” Pritzker said. “They’re all being quite quiet while one pharmacy company has said what they intend to do. There are concerns about legal liability. We can all have a debate about that. We need to know from all of them. We’re calling on all of them to come clean.”
Pritzker calls the decision by Walgreens “troubling.” He says he’s talked to the company and hopes they’ll change their mind.
“The other major pharmacy companies have not announced what they’re doing. And it’s clear to me that they are capitulating to the threat by 21 attorneys general around the nation. That’s not acceptable,” said Pritzker.
Meantime, after a hearing in Texas Wednesday, a federal judge there said he will issue an opinion as soon as possible over whether one abortion pill should banned across the country.
