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Retail pharmacies must fill prescriptions for drugs that can terminate pregnancies under federal civil rights law, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday afternoon, as state-level abortion bans leave some patients unable to access key medication—including drugs that aren’t necessarily abortion-related.

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ໄດ້ ການຊີ້ນໍາ from HHS’s civil rights office says any pharmacy that refuses to fill prescriptions for drugs that can end pregnancies may be discriminating on the basis of disability or sex, which includes pregnancy-related discrimination.

HHS offered a few examples of possible discrimination, like refusing to fill mifepristone, which is commonly used for medication abortions but also are prescribed to patients who have had a miscarriage, withholding a rheumatoid arthritis patient’s prescription to methotrexate because it can also induce miscarriages, and declining to fill drug prescriptions that were issued in connection to surgical abortions.

ອົງການດັ່ງກ່າວ ຍັງໄດ້ກ່າວວ່າ pharmacies can’t refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control or emergency contraception because they could prevent pregnancies.

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HHS did not explain how—or whether—it plans to enforce this policy, or how pharmacists should contend with conflicting state laws. An unnamed federal official told ຫຼາຍ ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ patients can file discrimination complaints with HHS.

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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, several states enacted near-total bans on abortion, ລວມທັງ medication abortions, which advocates hope will remain more accessible since patients can receive the pills through the mail from other states. But state-level curbs on abortion medication are legally contentious. The Department of Justice ເວົ້າວ່າ states can’t ban the abortion drug mifepristone because they disagree with the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve it, an argument also made by mifepristone’s manufacturer in a ກົດຫມາຍວ່າດ້ວຍ against the state of Mississippi, but it’s unclear how the courts will rule on the issue or ບໍ່ວ່າຈະເປັນ the federal government will take legal action. State laws have also created uncertainty about drugs that aren’t always used for abortion-related care. Some people with autoimmune conditions have ລາຍງານ ຄວາມຫຍຸ້ງຍາກ getting methotrexate because of its alternate use to terminate pregnancies, and a Texas doctor ບອກ Slate some pharmacists are wary of filling prescriptions for misoprostol—which is used for stomach ulcers but is also prescribed alongside mifepristone for medication abortions—due to state laws.

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This is the second time this week HHS has issued guidance to healthcare providers grappling with state-level abortion bans. On Monday, the agency ກ່າວວ່າ federal law requires hospitals to offer abortions in life-threatening and emergency situations regardless of state law.

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