Wal-Mart Will Now Stock Morning-After Pill
From Times Wire Reports
Officials of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced in Bentonville that the company would reverse its earlier policy and stock emergency contraception pills in all of its pharmacies effective March 20. They said Wal-Mart could not justify being the country’s only major pharmacy chain not to carry the morning-after pill.
The announcement comes after Massachusetts last month ordered the world’s largest retailer to stock the so-called Plan B pill. Three Boston women had filed a lawsuit to force the company to carry it.
Illinois also requires pharmacies to carry the prescription drug, and those had been the only two states where Wal-Mart had stocked the pill.
