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Politics Over Patients: Costco Caves to Extremists on Mifepristone
By siding with anti-abortion extremists, Costco is blocking access to essential health care. Anti-abortion groups are celebrating—and CVS and Walgreens could be next.
⚡TL; DR (too long, didn’t read)
Costco has refused to stock mifepristone in its 500 pharmacies nationwide after pressure from anti-abortion groups.
These extremists are celebrating and openly plotting to pressure CVS and Walgreens next—all part of their coordinated strategy to ban abortion nationwide.
Add your name to demand pharmacies stock mifepristone on their shelves.
🤿 Dive Deeper: What Just Happened at Costco?
Costco is putting politics over science—refusing to provide safe, FDA-approved abortion medication in their pharmacies.
They’re citing “lack of consumer demand” as the reason, but their statement comes after months of lobbying from extremist groups like Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), Inspire Investing, and a group of anti-abortion state financial officials.
ADF is a nationwide network of conservative lawyers and played a pivotal legal role in Roe v. Wade being overturned. They’re also a designated hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. ADF Legal Counsel Michael Ross praised Costco for its decision, calling the move a “step in the right direction” for the anti-abortion movement. Cue the rage screaming.
Costco’s decision aligns the company with extremists over essential care—ignoring decades of evidence-based data and overwhelming public support for abortion access.
Mifepristone has been FDA-approved for more than 20 years, is safe and effective, and is used in more than 60% of abortions in the U.S. It’s also a critical medication for miscarriage care.
Here’s what the data shows:
8 in 10 Americans
believe abortion should be legal in all or some cases.
2 in 3 Americans
are concerned that restrictions on medication abortion put politicians into personal decisions.
Mifepristone is safe and effective.
It has had FDA approval for over 20 years.
🔍 Read our deep dive on mifepristone here.
⚠️ The Stakes: What This Means for You
This is not just about Costco—this is a coordinated national attack on abortion. Bullying pharmacies into blocking access to mifepristone is just one part of MAGA’s agenda.
Targeting pharmacies is one way to make abortion harder to access in every community, even in states where it’s legal.
By caving to extremists, pharmacies like Costco legitimize long-running anti-abortion disinformation campaigns and endanger patients.
🛩️ The Big Picture: Pharmacies, Mifepristone, and the GOP’s Push for a National Ban
This is a coordinated national attack on abortion. Targeting pharmacies is how MAGA will further strip away our reproductive freedom
This is exactly the kind of play anti-abortion extremists outlined in Project 2025.
Their goal is crystal clear: ban abortion nationwide—with or without Congress—and they’re using every lever to do it, from the courts to corporate boardrooms.
💡Resources for Abortion Care
If you need abortion care, there are resources available.
- Abortion care: Explore Abortion Finder, Abortion on our Terms, Plan C, M+A Hotline for abortion care resources—or chat with Charley the Chatbot (right here on this webpage).
- Know your rights: Even in banned states, some exceptions may apply. Learn about your state’s laws through the Repro Legal Helpline.
- Abortion funds & financial support: Groups like the National Network of Abortion Funds and ineedana.com can help you access financial resources.
- Legal help: Abortion Defense Network.
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