Welcome to a break point a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Walgreens and CVS, the two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, recently announced that they'll begin offering

the abortion pill, Mifapristone, at select stores this month.

Walgreens plans to sell the pill at select locations in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California, and Illinois, with hopes to expand

to other locations in states soon.

CVS will offer the pill in Massachusetts and Rhode Island before expanding to other states.

President Biden, whose pro-abortion agenda is, and I quote,

the strongest abortion rights platform of any general election candidate,

praise the pharmacy change decision

as an important milestone to ensure access

to chemical abortion.

The pharmacy giants push marks the latest in a cascade of anti-life efforts centered on expanding chemical abortion.

When originally approved by the Food and Drug Administration back in 2000,

Miffa Pristone could only be prescribed by a licensed physician,

and that was after an in-person appointment.

And it also required an in-person follow-up to ensure that the abortion had been completed

quote-unquote safely.

Then in 2016, the Obama administration expanded the list of who could prescribe the drug

and also eliminated the two-week follow-up requirement. During the pandemic in 2021

the Biden administration first temporarily lifted the in-person requirement

before later that year removing it altogether.

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