美国CVS和沃尔格林将于本月开始销售堕胎药

CVS and Walgreens will begin selling the abortion pill mifepristone in the coming weeks. 
CVS和沃尔格林将在未来几周开始销售堕胎药米非司酮。

The decision was announced on Friday by spokespersons for both drug store chains following the Food and Drug Administration's decision to allow the medication to be offered at retail pharmacies, which was previously finalized in January 2023.
上周五，两家连锁药店的发言人宣布了这一决定。此前，美国食品和药物管理局(fda)决定允许零售药店提供这种药物，此前该决定于2023年1月敲定。

However, at this time, the pills will only be available in a handful of states where abortion is legal. CVS and Walgreens will not make mifepristone available by mail, though this could change at a later date.
然而，目前这种药物只能在少数几个堕胎合法的州使用。CVS和沃尔格林将不会通过邮寄方式提供米非司酮，尽管这可能会在以后改变。

As Walgreens has completed the FDA certification process to dispense mifepristone, the company plans to begin distributing it within a week in select locations in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California and Illinois, Fraser Engerman, a spokesman for the company, told The New York Times.
沃尔格林公司发言人弗雷泽·英格曼在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示，随着沃尔格林公司完成了米非司酮的FDA认证程序，该公司计划在一周内开始在纽约、宾夕法尼亚州、马萨诸塞州、加利福尼亚州和伊利诺伊州的选定地区销售米非司酮。

“We are beginning a phased rollout in select locations to allow us to ensure quality, safety, and privacy for our patients, providers, and team members,” Walgreens said in a statement. The company's goal "is to gradually expand availability to locations in all legally permissible states in a phased approach."
沃尔格林在一份声明中说:“我们正在选定的地点开始分阶段推出，以确保我们的病人、提供者和团队成员的质量、安全和隐私。”该公司的目标是“分阶段在所有法律允许的州逐步扩大可用性。”

Engerman told The New York Times that Walgreens was “not going to dispense in states where the laws are unclear” to protect its pharmacists and staff members.
德国人告诉《纽约时报》，沃尔格林“不会在法律不明确的州分发”，以保护药剂师和工作人员。

Amy Thibault, a spokeswoman for CVS, also told The New York Times that CVS will begin dispensing in all of its pharmacies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island “in the weeks ahead.”
CVS的女发言人艾米·蒂博也告诉《纽约时报》，CVS将在“未来几周”开始在马萨诸塞州和罗德岛州的所有药店配药。

For now, CVS is “working with manufacturers and suppliers to secure the medication and are not yet dispensing it” in any of their pharmacies, reports NBC News.
据NBC新闻报道，目前，CVS正在“与制造商和供应商合作，以确保药物的安全，目前还没有在他们的任何药店配药”。

Both companies are monitoring legislation in Kansas, Montana, Wyoming and other states for possible distribution at a later date, reports The New York Times.
据《纽约时报》报道，两家公司都在关注堪萨斯州、蒙大拿州、怀俄明州和其他州的立法，以备日后可能的分销。

In a statement shared by the White House on Friday, President Joe Biden praised the update, calling it “an important milestone.”
在白宫周五发布的一份声明中，乔·拜登总统称赞了这一更新，称其为“一个重要的里程碑”。

“Many women will soon have the option to pick up their prescription at a local, certified pharmacy — just as they would for any other medication,” Biden, 81, said, encouraging “all pharmacies” to seek certification if they are interested in dispensing the abortion pill. 
81岁的拜登说:“许多妇女很快就可以选择在当地认证的药店购买处方——就像她们购买其他药物一样。”他鼓励“所有药店”如果有兴趣销售堕胎药，都要寻求认证。

He continued, “The stakes could not be higher for women across America. In the face of relentless attacks on reproductive freedom by Republican elected officials, Vice President Harris and I will continue to fight to ensure that women can get the health care they need, to defend the Food and Drug Administration’s independent and evidence-based approval and regulation of mifepristone, and to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law.”
他接着说，“对美国各地的女性来说，赌注再高不过了。面对共和党民选官员对生育自由的无情攻击，哈里斯副总统和我将继续努力，确保妇女能够获得所需的医疗保健，捍卫美国食品和药物管理局对米非司酮的独立和循证批准和监管，并恢复联邦法律对罗伊诉韦德案的保护。”

In January 2023, a spokesperson for Walgreens told CBS News, "We are working through the registration, necessary training of our pharmacists, as well as evaluating our pharmacy network in terms of where we normally dispense products that have extra FDA requirements and will dispense these consistent with federal and state laws.”
2023年1月，沃尔格林的一位发言人告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，“我们正在进行注册，对药剂师进行必要的培训，并根据我们通常在哪里分发有额外FDA要求的产品来评估我们的药房网络，并将按照联邦和州法律分发这些产品。”