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Major Pharmacy Retailers Ration Emergency Contraceptives

Business Wars Daily

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Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today is Friday, July 8, and we're looking at CVS vs. Rite Aid.

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Thank you. From Wondery, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this July 8th. Happy Friday, everyone.

1:07.5

Today we're concluding our series on the impact that the Supreme Court's decision

1:11.0

to overturn Roe v. Wade has had on businesses. We've touched on period tracker apps, corporate

1:16.1

health insurance policies, startups providing abortion care through the mail, and today

1:20.7

major pharmacy retailers. Emergency contraceptives can prevent pregnancy if taken within three

1:26.8

days of intercourse.

1:28.4

In 2013, a decision by the Obama administration made one brand, Plan B, One Step, available

1:34.3

over-the-counter with no age restrictions and for around $50, which means these pills are

1:40.0

supposed to be relatively easy to obtain. But that's not always the case. Last year, a professor

1:46.3

of medicine sent a group of students to several pharmacies in western Pennsylvania. The students

1:51.1

found that a third of the pharmacies they visited didn't stock Plan B at all. And when they did,

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