After the second largest chain of retail stores in the United States announced that its pharmacies would not sell the abortion drug mifepristone, Washington Senator Patricia Lynn Murray harshly criticized it.

Midweek, Costco issued a statement to Reuters news agency explaining why it did not intend to sell mifepristone.

"Our position at this time of not selling mifepristone, which has not changed, is based on a lack of demand from our members and other patients, who we understand generally have the medication dispensed by their medical providers," said the company, founded in 1983.

However, the argument was not convincing to Patty Murray, who is convinced that Costco's real motive is fear of incurring the wrath of conservative politicians.

I am deeply alarmed by the news that Costco is refusing to carry safe, effective, and legal medications just to appease the politics of anti-abortion zealots.

Mifepristone is safe and effective; We cannot live in a world where the availability of health care for women fluctuates based on the whims of extremists who want to deny women access to basic medical care. ¢ I demand that Costco change its position immediately: that it stand by the science and the facts, not the demands of far-right anti-abortion extremists, she wrote on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter. ¢ The 74-year-old Democrat warned that she will continue to fight to provide women with legal recourse to exercise their freedom to do with their bodies as they please. ¢ I refuse to stand idly by and allow far-right extremists to intimidate large corporations and dictate to what medications women can and cannot access.

Where legal, Retailers and large pharmacies must make medication abortion available to women who need it," she emphasized.