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Posted on 10/16/2025 10:33:47 PM PDT by Morgana
ashington state's attempt to become an abortion pill vendor has allegedly failed after it spent millions to stockpile the drugs, which are soon set to expire.
Key Takeaways:
* A recent op-ed from an abortion provider laments the fact that Washington state stockpiled a large number of abortion pills that are set to expire soon.
* The state reportedly paid a higher rate for the drugs than abortion providers, and a statute requires the state to sell the drugs at the state's cost plus a handling fee; this has made it difficult for the state to offload the drugs to other potential buyers.
* As of 2024, nine states had either begun stockpiling the abortion drug mifepristone or had plans to do so; some of those states also began to stockpile misoprostol, the second drug in the abortion pill regimen.
* The stockpiling of the abortion pill has increased the drug's sales, potentially inflating the reported number of abortions.
The Backstory:
In June of 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to set in place their own abortion laws. Some put pro-life protections in place, while others expanded abortion up to birth.
By April of 2023, Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of the name brand MIfeprex abortion pill, claimed orders for the drug had “increased substantially in recent months and are significantly higher than they were at this time last year,” according to a CNN report about stockpiling.
Live Action News noted that demand for mifepristone was up among all types of customers, including clinics, pharmacies and individual providers, according to Danco’s director of public affairs at that time.
On April 4, 2023, Governor Jay Inslee announced that Washington state had “taken unprecedented action to purchase a three-year supply of mifepristone…” and that Inslee had “directed the state Department of Corrections [DOC], using its existing pharmacy license, to purchase the medication [in March]. The full shipment was delivered on March 31."
According to the Associated Press, the state DOC was ordered "to buy 30,000 doses of the generic version of mifepristone at a cost of about $1.28 million, or $42.50 per pill.”
Governor Inslee had also vowed to continue to dispense abortion pills, regardless of any decisions by the Supreme Court. (Note: The tweet below is from the governor of Washington's X account; in 2023, it was Gov. Inslee's, but since January 2025, it has been the account of Gov. Bob Ferguson.)
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Health care should be decided by a patient and their doctor, not a judge in Texas. Today, I announced that Washington state has taken unprecedented action to purchase a three-year supply of mifepristone, an abortion medication used safely for more than two decades. 1:59 AM · Apr 5, 2023
What's Happening:
An October 9 op-ed by self-described abortion provider Glenna Martin: MD, MPH, claimed that "WA’s abortion pill stockpile is in danger" and will soon be destroyed:
In 2023, under then-Gov. Jay Inslee, Washington spent $1.3 million in taxpayer dollars to purchase a stockpile of mifepristone... But nearly two years later, the state has no plan for distribution. In January, those medications are set to be destroyed.
Rather than solving the problem... 17,600 doses of mifepristone and 61,500 doses of misoprostol... are also sitting in storage with no plan to reach patients, and some doses will expire as early as March 2026.
... If the initial stock purchased is distributed before it expires in January, the state could provide safe abortions for up to 30,000 people...
... Experts have repeatedly offered to help craft a distribution plan. Other states that purchased abortion medication stockpiles after Washington have successfully distributed medications to clinics or provided funding directly to providers to purchase their own stockpiles. However, Washington impaired itself with a statute requiring the drugs be sold at the state’s cost plus a $5 handling fee — despite having paid more than the provider rate — making it harder and more expensive to move the supply at all....
Martin, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health (PRH), was described by the Seattle Times only as "a family physician in Seattle" who "sits on the board of Pro Choice Washington," but according to abortiondocs.org, Martin formerly committed abortions at Whole Woman's Health in Austin, Texas. Martin is currently employed at the University of Washington School of Medicine, which hosts a Ryan Residency abortion training program.
Ryan Residency programs have trained over 7,000 obstetricians and gynecologists in how to intentionally kill preborn human beings by induced abortion, with upwards of 100 residency training programs nationwide since its founding in 1999.
According to OPB.org:
Inslee OK’d the purchase of another 17,600 doses shortly before leaving office in January, costing $757,000...
... The extra 17,600 doses expire in late 2028 and early 2029, [Brionna] Aho [spokesperson for Gov. Bob Ferguson] noted. On that purchase, the supplier agreed to accept unused doses when they expire and exchange them for new pills at no cost to the state. So destroying those pills will likely be unnecessary.
A separate stockpile of misoprostol expiring in February and March 2026 may also need to be destroyed, Aho said.
University of Washington Medicine had its own 10,000-pill stockpile of mifepristone. All of it has been distributed to clinics in the state, said spokesperson Susan Gregg.
Abortion pill stockpiling nationwide
Live Action News has previously documented abortion pill stockpiles in multiple states. While mifepristone is the only drug approved by the FDA for the termination of pregnancy, some states are also stockpiling misoprostol, the companion drug used in the abortion pill regimen.
Given the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) safety requirements for obtaining, prescribing, or dispensing the drugs, this stockpiling scheme seems questionable. Additionally, the Biden FDA had also opened the flood gates for dispensing abortion pills by enabling them to not only be shipped by mail but to also be dispensed in pharmacies.
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Now this is happening. The drugs are set to expire without being used.
Thank you Jesus!
Oh no! Babies are going to be born.
Apparently someone has a new go to blog to post from. Key Takeaways: *it’s called live action news *the key takeaways are not important concepts just the particulars of the story *they have been appearing for several days after never being seen before
I don’t like the way Live Action has changed their format but they still have good news stories.
Thank you sideshow Bob Ferguson.
More taxpayer money just poured down the drain.
They’ll just redate them and hand them out anyways.
There’s no concern about the side effects of a drug that’s meant to kill people anyways.
Just wait until they decide to run their own government grocery stores. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Often expiration dates mean little, its just they dont want customers to know something has been sitting on a shelf for so long. While it varies by medication, most dont lose potency at their expiration date. Many take a long time to lose significant potency.
If they are so safe, why hasn’t Bob Barker developed them for cats?
Hopefully the pills don’t get poured down the drain. I glanced at some headline about abortion pills (or maybe the pills that prevent ovulation?) are contaminating the water. I have no clue if they actually are.
Taken separately, each of this mornings postings are terrible or sobering articles. When viewed as a whole, they sure sound like birthing pains. A beginning of sorrows perhaps?
Think I will go grab some coffee now. Ttyl.
So typical of the Death Culture.
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; (Jeremiah 19:4)
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. (Deuteronomy 32:35-36)
what you say is true, but governments and medical facilities are breaking the law and/or inviting nearly unlimited liability should they distribute “expired” medications ...
same for the concept of “best used by dates” for food: local food banks won’t accept food that’s even one day past such a date ...
Well, there is always the gas chamber.
Well, isn’t that just too bad! Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe one baby slated to be aborted, but was allowed to live....could grow up to be a great president some day?
As a Washington State resident, I say thank you, Jesus also. I also hope the commies in Pugetopolis get their panties all wadded up once this becomes well known. Mifepristone is liberal sacrament and seeing it wasted will cause the above mentioned losers to have seething rage.
He’s dead, Jim.
If they distribute expired pills, someone could die.
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