Note: This letter was sent to the Eureka CA store on Broadway:
To the Store Manager and Chief Pharmacist:
Ceridwen and I have been customers of Walgreens for over five years. Mostly it was because our former Part D insurance provider, United Health Care, required us to use Walgreens.
Last year Karyn’s Part D insurance changed to a different company and no longer requires us to use your pharmacy. Likewise, this year my Part D insurance changed. Regardless, we had intended to stay with you, since it is just more convenient and we were already established with you.
That changed when your parent company, Walgreens Boot Alliance, decided to deny women in twenty US States their Constitutional right, indeed, a moral right, to the drug mifepristone. All because pressure was applied by right wing, Christian Nationalist attorneys threatened legal action against Walgreens.
This is a WRONGNESS. This goes against everything our Constitution and the entire concept of Democracy stand for. It is un American, religious discrimination. These people want to turn America into a religious dictatorship (think The Handmaids Tale, or Robert Heinlein’s short story, If This Goes On). They want to impose on all American’s, Christian or not, a kind of Christian Sharia Law, that will eventually deny women, people of color, LGBTQ, Indigenous Americans and basically anyone they dislike, any and all rights currently guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.
First it was Republican dominated States restricting abortion. Then the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. Walgreens has joined them in these heinous restrictions. Birth control, in any form, with be next. In the end, women will be barefoot, pregnant, denied education, and forced to wear Burkas. The ones who refuse will be tried as witches and burned at the stake.
We can’t take you to court, so we are no longer doing business with you. We cannot tolerate a company that is acting to destroy the America my father (a WW II vet) fought against fascism to preserve.
Feel free to forward this letter to your corporate masters.
