The nation's two largest pharmacies, Walgreens and CVS, have updated their company policies to allow their pharmacists to deny medication to people who they think could be circumventing new abortion laws by causing a miscarriage. In a case called Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court in June overturned its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion. The decision shifted the abortion debate to the states, some of which have passed laws – or are relying on earlier statutes – to ban the procedure. But under policies like the type Walgreens and CVS have in place, and in the months since the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, people with no plans, ability or wish to be pregnant have been denied necessary medications by Walgreens pharmacists worried about breaking legal restrictions on abortion, say women's advocacy groups like Global Healthy Living Foundation, a chronic illness association. Patients say they feel discriminated against and should be trusted when they say they are not pregnant and don't plan to be. Pharmacies say they don't want to break local laws. Read the full story at the link in our bio.