Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins joined Fox & Friends to commend Costco Wholesale’s decision to reject selling the Chemical Abortion Pill, mifepristone, at more than 500 pharmacies of its U.S. locations and to recognize the Pro-Life Generation’s (PLG) persistent advocacy.   

Hawkins boldly said on Fox & Friends that the pro-life movement is gaining momentum and showing that our words and actions have had a massive impact on the culture. Despite the rage-bait headlines from the mainstream media (case in point, MSNBC’s article, “Costco doesn’t stock abortion pills, but it should”), this is not only good news for the Pro-Life Generation (PLG), but also for preborn children everywhere.   

According to The Hill, the company said the decision was due to a lack of demand. Still, without a National Abortion Reporting Law, we have no idea about the real use of Chemical Abortion Pills. Still, this is very encouraging that Costco said they had a “lack of demand” for Chemical Abortion Pills.  

Just as physicians should save lives, pharmacies should be giving life-friendly medication, not deadly poison. Costco is where families go to shop—it shouldn’t be where the preborn go to die. Not only did SFLA take pharmacies head-on—we have kept a running tab on everything wrong with Chemical Abortion Pills and the industry on our “This is Chemical Abortion” educational website.   

LEARN MORE: This Is Chemical Abortion | Stop Chemical Abortion

In November 2023, SFLA launched the HALT PHARMACY ABORTIONS project, which included appeals to Costco and other retailers to stop peddling preborn death. Additionally, we sent a nationwide letter to the top nine retail pharmacies urging pharmacy businesses to DECLINE TO SIGN and refuse to “Opt In” to Chemical Abortion Pill distribution, as well as providing activism kits for pharmacy protests.   

WIN: Costco said NO to distributing deadly Chemical Abortion Pills. @StudentsforLife worked hard to call on pharmacies to reject these dangerous drugs.

Great to see 500+ pharmacies truly living up to their slogan: “Simplifying Home and LIFE.” Protecting moms, protecting… pic.twitter.com/l5vFWLPbme

— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) August 14, 2025

Letter recipients included Costco along with: Albertsons, CVS, Kroger, Publix, Rite Aid, Safeway, Walgreens, and Walmart. Hawkins sent a letter delivered to the corporate headquarters that was echoed in a nationwide push. At the time, CVS and Walgreens said they were up for killing future customers. However, it seemed Costco got the message and decided to keep life-affirming care as its corporate goal, earning the loyalty of customers, born and preborn.  

We hold on to this massive victory, but to all other distributors, we still ask that they prioritize keeping their customers alive as a business to build on. As we do, we will keep educating the public.   

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