The state of Texas is suing to block one of the Biden administration’s key initiatives to protect access to abortion medication, alleging an HHS guidance for pharmacies seeks to impose federal abortion rights that no longer exist.
In its lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Western District of Texas, the state called the administration’s “pharmacy mandate” an illegal attempt to circumvent federal and state law by requiring local pharmacies to provide “abortion-inducing drugs.”
The 2022 guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights states that pharmacies, as recipients of federal funds that include ...
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