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HHS warns pharmacies denying abortion pills violates anti-discrimination law

By Cassidy Morrison
Published July 13, 2022 6:25pm ET
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HHS warns pharmacies denying abortion pills violates anti-discrimination law
The Biden administration is warning retail pharmacies against denying patients abortion-inducing medication, saying this would violate anti-discrimination laws by withholding healthcare from pregnant people. The Department of Health and Human Services’s Office for Civil Rights has released guidelines reinforcing the Obamacare law that warns more than 60,000 U.S. pharmacies against refusing to dispense abortion-inducing medication, […]

The Biden administration is warning retail pharmacies against denying patients abortion-inducing medication, saying this would violate anti-discrimination laws by withholding healthcare from pregnant people.

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