{"id":323330,"date":"2024-12-18T23:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=323330"},"modified":"2024-12-18T23:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:02:54","slug":"kroger-sams-club-third-party-vendors-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kroger-sams-club-third-party-vendors-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Kroger and Sam’s Club say ‘errors’ by ‘third party vendors’ listed abortion pill on their websites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Days after Live Action News originally broke the news that both Kroger<\/a> and Sam’s Club<\/a> were displaying the abortion pill mifepristone (200mg) \u2014 also known by its brand name, Mifeprex \u2014 for sale on their pharmacy websites, the grocery store giants have issued statements insisting that the drug was displayed for sale on their websites due to “errors” in drug listings by “third-party vendors,” which the pharmacies use to “aggregate medication pricing.”<\/p>\n

After Live Action News broke the story on the presence of mifepristone on the Kroger pharmacy\u2019s website, other outlets reported on the news, including\u00a0The Washington Stand<\/a> (TWS).\u00a0An e-mail was then sent by Danielle Lewis Jones, Head of Communications for Kroger Health, to a senior editor at TWS<\/a>, claiming that “The Kroger Company Family of Pharmacies do not carry Mifepristone, nor do we dispense it” and that\u00a0“The Kroger Family of Pharmacies doesn\u2019t carry Mifepristone and was listed on the\u00a0Kroger Health Savings Club site in error. It has since been removed<\/strong> and we are requesting a retraction of Kroger\u2019s inclusion in the story\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n

This information was confirmed<\/a> by LifeNews, which stated, “Danielle Lewis Jones, Head of Communications for Kroger Health, confimed [sic] to LifeNews today that Kroger is not selling the aboriton [sic] pill and the above listing was made in error by a third-party vendor that operates the Kroger Savings Club web site<\/strong>” (emphasis added).<\/p>\n

This week, Live Action News also received communications from trusted sources stating that they had obtained information from Sam’s Club \u2014 which claimed that their pharmacy’s listing, too, had been due to an error with a third-party pharmacy tool. Live Action News sought to verify this information, and received a swift response from Allison Van Matre, Senior Director of Global Communications for Sam\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n

Van Matre provided the following statement \u201con behalf of the company\u201d regarding whether or not Sam\u2019s Club is selling the mifepristone abortion pill as was found on its pharmacy website: \u201cWe use a third-party vendor<\/strong> to aggregate medication pricing, and their tool provided incorrect information<\/strong>” (emphases added).<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week @Kroger<\/a>'s website listed the abortion pill -mifepristone – for sale.<\/p>\n

After @LiveActionNews<\/a> broke the story, the national chain received major backlash. Kroger has since apologized, claiming the listing was a mistake.<\/p>\n

Drugs designed to kill have no place in our\u2026<\/p>\n

— Live Action (@LiveAction) December 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n