California Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged Monday to cease conducting enterprise with Walgreens after the pharmaceutical retailer mentioned it might not distribute abortion capsules by mail in states the place attorneys normal have threatened authorized motion.

“California received’t be doing enterprise with @walgreens — or any firm that cowers to the extremists and places ladies’s lives in danger,” the Democratic governor tweeted, linking to a narrative in regards to the abortion-pill subject.

“We’re completed,” he mentioned.

In a Feb. 1 letter, 20 Republican attorneys normal warned CVS and Walgreens, the nation’s largest pharmaceutical chains, that they might face authorized penalties for promoting abortion capsules by mail, citing an 150-year-old federal regulation in addition to restrictions in 19 crimson states.

A Walgreens spokesperson confirmed Friday that the retail chain wouldn’t dispense by mail in these states the drug Mifepristone, a part of the two-drug routine permitted by the Meals and Drug Administration to terminate pregnancies as much as 10 weeks’ gestation.

Mr. Newsom didn’t provide any particulars on how he would minimize ties with Walgreens, however his workplace mentioned in a subsequent assertion that “California is reviewing all relationships between Walgreens and the state.”

“We won’t pursue enterprise with firms that cave to proper wing bullies pushing their extremist agenda or firms that put politics above the well being of ladies and ladies,” the governor’s workplace advised KRON-TV.

Walgreens had 569 areas in California as of final month, or about 6% of its complete footprint, trailing solely Florida and Texas, in keeping with the information web site ScrapeHero.

Mr. Newsom has sought to make California a sanctuary state for abortion entry within the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, which was overturned by the Supreme Court docket in June.

Deliberate Parenthood Associates of California spokesperson Jennifer Wonnacott applauded Mr. Newsom for “persevering with to face robust in his assist of abortion entry and push again in opposition to the anti-abortion motion that won’t cease till they ban and criminalize abortion nationwide.”

On the opposite facet was the Involved Girls for America, which inspired Walgreens to cease promoting the abortion capsules altogether.

“Gavin Newsom simply introduced that California received’t be doing enterprise with Walgreens as a result of they’re refusing to promote the abortion capsule in 20 states,” tweeted the conservative ladies’s group. “Thanks, @Walgreens. We are going to store in your shops and hope you’ll cease promoting the abortion capsule in all states.”

What the governor’s choice to chop ties with Walgreens would seem like in observe was unclear, as a number of California information retailers identified.

“Newsom tends to grab on hot-button political points and make attention-grabbing bulletins earlier than he has decided how the state will perform his plan,” the Los Angeles Instances mentioned Monday in its report on the governor’s assertion.