(ADAMS) – Republican attorneys general from 20 states are telling CVS and Walgreens that their plans to distribute abortion pills through the mail are “both unsafe and illegal.”
The officials said in a letter sent Wednesday that federal law prohibits anyone from using the mail to send or receive any drug that will “be used or applied for producing an abortion.”
The warning refers to an 1873 law known as the Comstock Act. Last month, the Department of Justice said in a legal finding that mailing two abortion drugs does not violate the Comstock Act.
The DOJ said the Postal Service is legally allowed to deliver prescription abortion drugs even in states that have restricted access to abortion.
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