Kroger has removed the abortion pill mifepristone from the Health Savings Club website Monday, a huge win for pro-life supporters everywhere.
The drug appears to have been removed following a story from The Washington Stand, which detailed how mifepristone was available via the website. An email to the outlet from Kroger the following day stated: “The Kroger Company Family of Pharmacies do not carry Mifepristone, nor do we dispense it.” At the time of writing (and at the time they received the statement), TWS claims the drug was still listed on the company site.
“The Kroger Family of Pharmacies doesn’t carry Mifepristone and was listed on the Kroger Health Savings Club site in error,” a statement later claimed. Within 24 hours of these communications occurring, TWS claims the drug was officially removed from the site.
From The Washington Stand: “Soon after Biden’s Food and Drug Administration announced that retail pharmacies could dispense the abortion pill in January 2023, Kroger along with other major retailers received a letter from 19 state attorneys general warning the companies that they would be violating federal law if they send abortion pills through the mail. But Democratic lawmakers like Senator Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) fired off their own letter in March 2023 demanding that Kroger and other retailers ignore the state AGs and “expand access” to the drug. A year later, CVS and Walgreens both began dispensing the pills, with Sam’s Club joining the list at some point this month.
“After having quietly followed suit and offering the abortion pill on its site for an unknown period of time, Kroger has apparently backtracked in the wake of press coverage of the listing.”
Million Voices spoke to a representative from Kroger who shared what really happened, and why the pill was listed on the company website. “A third-party organization erroneously listed the pill as available at Kroger – we do not sell, nor have we ever sold, mifepristone. It was an error on a third-party site to list it,” the representative for Kroger said in an email to Million Voices.
It’s unclear what really happened, as Bloomberg Law reported in August 2024 that Christian groups were pressuring Kroger and other major grocery stores, like Costco, Walmart, and Albertsons.
