{"id":33023,"date":"2024-12-18T20:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=33023"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:06:30","slug":"could-this-be-a-christmas-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/could-this-be-a-christmas-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Could this be a Christmas miracle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kroger Backtracks, Removes Abortion Drug from Pharmacies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By: Dan Hart, originally published December 17, 2024, The Washington Stand<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this a Christmas miracle?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a remarkable turn of events, grocery giant Kroger has removed the abortion drug mifepristone from their Health Savings Club website Monday following an email exchange with The Washington Stand in response to\u00a0our story<\/a>\u00a0on December 14. Kroger, the second-largest grocery chain in the U.S., is also the country\u2019s\u00a0sixth-largest<\/a>\u00a0pharmacy chain, earning prescription revenues of $14.5 billion in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 12, Live Action News\u00a0first reported<\/a>\u00a0that Kroger\u2019s Health Savings Club website listed mifepristone as an available drug, stating that \u201cIt is used to end a pregnancy.\u201d After verifying that the pill was still listed on Kroger\u2019s site as of December 13, TWS published a story on the topic the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the afternoon of December 16, TWS received an email from Kroger\u2019s communications director stating, \u201cThe Kroger Company Family of Pharmacies do not carry Mifepristone, nor do we dispense it.\u201d As of that time, however, Kroger\u2019s Health Savings Club website still listed the drug. After we pointed out the discrepancy and requested an explanation, Kroger responded, \u201cThe Kroger Family of Pharmacies doesn\u2019t carry Mifepristone and was listed on the Kroger Health Savings Club site in error,\u201d further requesting a \u201cretraction of Kroger\u2019s inclusion in the story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the mifepristone listing still remained on the site at 5 p.m. EST. TWS sent a further email acknowledging Kroger\u2019s response but also pointing out that the abortion drug webpage was still live. Several minutes later, Kroger responded, stating, \u201cThe link that you are using is old.\u201d By 8 a.m. the following morning, the mifepristone listing was removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the abortion pill has been available in the U.S. since 2000, the Biden administration has been\u00a0steadily loosening restrictions<\/a>\u00a0on its use, removing the in-person requirement for prescribing the drug in December 2021 and allowing retail pharmacies to dispense it in January of 2023. The Biden administration has taken these actions despite the documented dangers they pose to the health of women and their babies,\u00a0say experts<\/a>, including the danger of failing to detect a potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy or detect Rh sensitivity that could jeopardize a woman\u2019s future pregnancies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other health hazards associated with the abortion drug\u00a0include<\/a>\u00a0\u201csevere bleeding, infection, retained fetal parts, the need for emergency surgery, and even death. Women may also experience cramping, bleeding, hemorrhage requiring transfusions, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and headache. Bleeding may continue for up to 30 days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon after Biden\u2019s Food and Drug Administration announced that retail pharmacies could dispense the abortion pill in January 2023, Kroger along with other major retailers received a\u00a0letter<\/a>\u00a0from 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\u00a0own letter<\/a>\u00a0in March 2023 demanding that Kroger and\u00a0other retailers<\/a>\u00a0ignore the state AGs and \u201cexpand access\u201d to the drug. A year later,\u00a0CVS and Walgreens<\/a>\u00a0both began dispensing the pills, with\u00a0Sam\u2019s Club<\/a>\u00a0joining the list at some point this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, welcomed the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m so grateful for the clarification from Kroger that they are not selling the abortion drug, mifepristone,\u201d she told TWS. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense for grocery stores to be abortion businesses. The two just don\u2019t go together. Because of this clarification, you\u2019ll definitely see my kids and I zooming around the store this week in their steering wheel cart!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But does Kroger still pay for abortion travel?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cincinnati Right to Life has continued campaigning against Kroger, the abortion cooperator<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cincinnati Right to Life President, Rachel Citak speaks at Kroger shareholder meeting<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you live in Cincinnati, are you drinking fetal remains?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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