Overview

• Walgreens pharmacists Dora Ig-Izevbekhai and Rachel Scott say one was fired and the other had her hours reduced after declining to dispense gender-affirming and abortion-related medications based on their Christian beliefs.
• The lawsuit alleges Walgreens in 2022–2023 told them religious accommodations were illegal under Minnesota law after years in which prescriptions were referred to other pharmacists and, per the complaint, accommodations were allowed in Wisconsin locations.
• The filing seeks court declarations that Minnesota law and Board of Pharmacy rules do not require dispensing or compounding those drugs and that any such mandate would violate their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
• The complaint says the Board has stated abortion-inducing drugs need not be filled but views gender-affirming requests case by case, while Walgreens declined comment and the Board has not publicly responded.
• The case arrives after a 2024 state appeals ruling for a patient denied emergency contraception, followed by about $673,000 in attorney fees awarded in June 2025, which advocates say strengthens patient-access claims.