Boots cuts price of morning-after pill across UK

Chemist follows Tesco and Superdrug’s lead on discount after initially refusing to ‘incentivise inappropriate use’

Boots has reduced the price of the morning-after pill in all its UK stores after failing to meet its target of a full rollout of the discount by October 2017. The move, which has been hailed as a “great win for women”, follows a campaign from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (Bpas), a leading provider of abortion care.

The charity wrote to retailers in spring 2017 asking them to consider offering a more affordable product after it was revealed that British women were paying up to five times as much as their European peers for the contraceptive.

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Continue reading... January 30, 2018 at 03:34AM