Kroger appears to have joined certain other pharmacies in dispensing the abortion pill, which intentionally ends the lives of preborn human beings — or, in the words of the grocery store chain’s website, “end[s] a pregnancy.” But it looks like it might not just be offering the drug, but offering it at a deep discount for health savings club members.
The abortion pill mifepristone (200mg) is listed among the many “popular” drugs offered upon applying for a Kroger Health Savings Club membership. The program allows members to “start saving up to 85% on your prescription medications.” A search for the drug’s pricing on the Kroger Health Savings Club website reveals that it will offer members the pill for $7.
The website is clear that the drug is used “to end a pregnancy,” but unlike the Sam’s Club pharmacy website, Kroger’s website does not detail the potential risks for taking the drug.
Live Action News called the number listed for Kroger Health Savings Club and inquired whether the drugs listed here would be available at every Kroger Pharmacy. We were told that this website is not a mail-order pharmacy, but that customers will need to ask at each specific Kroger Pharmacy whether mifepristone will be in stock or available at that location.
Kroger drug price for Mifepristone 200mg, the abortion pill to end pregnancy
Abortion pill v. Korlym
The abortion pill was approved in 2000 as mifepristone (brand name Mifeprex) and is administered in a 200-milligram dosage. It is manufactured under the direction of Danco Laboratories and the generic version under GenBioPro.
In January 2023, the Biden FDA further gutted the REMS by announcing it would allow retail pharmacies to dispense the drug.
In the screen image from the Kroger website above, the drug mifepristone also shows “Korlym,” which also contains mifepristone as the active ingredient. However, the dosage is different (200 mg v. 300 mg).
As Live Action News previously detailed, Korlym is manufactured by Corcept Therapeutics and was approved in 2012 by the FDA to treat Cushing syndrome. It is not the abortion pill. According to the FDA’s approval letter, Korlym’s mifepristone tablets are 300 milligrams versus the mifepristone approved by the FDA for the termination of pregnancy (abortion), which is 200 milligrams.
Korlym’s November 2019 black box label warns, “Mifepristone has potent antiprogestational effects and will result in the termination of pregnancy. Pregnancy must therefore be excluded before the initiation of treatment with KORLYM, or if treatment is interrupted for more than 14 days in females of reproductive potential.”
Kroger Family Pharmacy
The Kroger Health Savings website states, “The Kroger Health Savings Club is an annual membership program that entitles members to significantly reduced prices on thousands of popular prescription drugs. There are two plan options: one for Individuals and one for Families. Kroger Health Savings Club is not insurance,” the website states.
Troubling is the fact that a Kroger Health Savings Membership is available at “Any Kroger Family Pharmacy” – and there are multiple companies that partner with Kroger, as shown below:
Kroger Health Savings Family of Pharmacies
It is unclear whether any or all of these chains will also dispense abortion drugs.
Pharmacy chains pressured to dispense abortion pills
Live Action News previously detailed how pharmacy chains are being pressured to become certified to dispense the deadly drug.
In June of 2023, Democrat members of Congress pressed Walmart, Costco, Safeway, Kroger, and HealthMart to undergo the certification process to dispense mifepristone. Then, as Live Action News previously documented, in July of 2024, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander sent letters to pharmacy giants Walmart, Costco, Kroger, Albertsons, and McKesson, urging them to “[p]rovide abortion medication or risk losing investor confidence” and to “start dispensing mifepristone without delay.”
Following Lander’s demands upon the pharmacy chains, comptrollers from 15 states pushed back, calling the move “political.”
In response to the demand letters from New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, on August 15, 2024, Kroger Health president Colleen Lindholz wrote:
Dear Mr. Lander:
Thank you for your letter requesting the status of The Kroger Co.’s position on offering mifepristone in our family of pharmacies. Following the Food and Drug Administration’s updated risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) for pharmacy dispensing of mifepristone, we began a review of the federal certification process. This includes the logistics involved in bringing the medication to our stores, training our pharmacy teams, and delivering medication to patients in compliance with a complicated and ever changing and litigated framework of federal and state law.
At this time, we are evaluating becoming REMS certified to dispense this product, including the logistics and as-yet unresolved legal landscape associated with that process, and commit to providing the highest level of care to our patients.
Now, apparently Kroger has caved. “The highest level of care” does not and should not include intentional killing.
Pharmacy chain Kroger response to demand to dispense abortion pills
This past spring, Walgreens and CVS announced that they had finalized the pharmacy dispensing certification process. Additional “certified pharmacies” who agreed to be publicly named have been published on GenBioPro’s website. In addition, Live Action News recently exposed Sam’s Club for dispensing the deadly pills.
The abortion pill ends the life of a living preborn child by starving the baby of important nutrients the child needs to survive. The drug also has potential risks, including a black box warning for sepsis. The FDA’s medication guide for the drug acknowledges that as many as seven percent (7%) of women who take mifepristone will need surgery after “to stop bleeding” or to complete the abortion.
With Guttmacher’s latest numbers showing that 63% of the 1,037,000 abortions in 2023 were done by abortion pill, this means that as many as 45,000 women could require surgery after taking the abortion pill every year.
Tell President Trump, RFK, Jr., Elon, and Vivek: Stop killing America’s future.
Defund Planned Parenthood NOW!
