CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Walmart rescinded a pharmacy policy that doctors said limited women’s access to a drug prescribed after miscarriages.
The retail giant had sent a memo to North Carolina pharmacists on Aug. 1, outlining new dispensing policies for the drug misoprostol, which can be used with another medication to induce abortions and for managing other unrelated health conditions, including miscarriages.
The guidance instructed pharmacists to confirm the medication was not ordered for an abortion, the News & Observer reported last month. The policy stigmatized women who needed the medication for miscarriages, several Triangle doctors said. Furthermore, legal experts said the policy was a misinterpretation of state abortion law.
