Treasurers and state financial officers representing 14 states sent letters Monday to Costco, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and McKesson calling on C-suite leaders to resist political pressure to begin selling the chemical abortion drug mifepristone at their pharmacies.
The letters were signed by state financial officers of Texas, Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The letters follow similar outreach in August from firms, financial advisors, and thousands of Costco members representing more than $100 billion in assets under management, including more than $172 million in ownership of the five retailers.
“We applaud the state financial officers calling for the companies to resist political pressure to dispense mifepristone,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Michael Ross. “Retailers like Costco and Walmart have nothing to gain and much to lose by selling dangerous abortion chemicals. Retail pharmacies are there to serve the health and wellness of their customers, but abortion drugs like mifepristone undermine that mission by putting women’s health at risk.”
The letters were written in response to pressure from New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who leveraged the funds of New York City’s employees two weeks before announcing his mayoral bid to pressure the companies to “immediately take the steps necessary” to begin dispensing the abortion drug mifepristone. […]
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