Women stockpile abortion pills before Trump term

Source: Washington Post

Women stockpile abortion pills before Trump term
Reproductive-health organizations and companies said demand for “morning after” pills, intrauterine devices and vasectomies has also increased.


Bottles of misoprostol and boxes of mifepristone — medications used in at-home abortions — sit on a table before being mailed from a New York home in July 2023. (Nadia Sablin for The Washington Post)

By Marisa Iati
Updated November 11, 2024 at 7:36 p.m. EST | Published November 11, 2024 at 6:58 p.m. EST

Women are seeking out abortion medication in higher-than-usual numbers ahead of a Donald Trump presidency that they fear could severely curtail access to reproductive care. … Aid Access, one of the largest suppliers of abortion pills, reported receiving 10,000 requests for the medication in the 24 hours after the election was called for the Republican nominee early Wednesday — roughly 17 times the 600 that the organization typically gets in a day.

Just the Pill, a nonprofit that prescribes abortion medication through telemedicine, said 22 of its 125 orders from Wednesday through Friday were from people who are not pregnant. It’s normally “a rarity” for anyone to ask for that kind of “advance provision,” said Julie Amaon, the group’s interim executive director.

And Plan C, which provides information about accessing abortion medication, reported receiving 82,200 visitors to its website on Wednesday, compared with approximately 4,000 or 4,500 visitors per day leading up to the election.

Reproductive-health organizations and companies also said demand for emergency contraceptive — or “morning after” — pills and long-lasting birth control, like intrauterine devices and vasectomies, has increased, but they declined to provide specific numbers.

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By Marisa Iati
Marisa Iati is a general assignment reporter at The Washington Post — a role in which she has covered the coronavirus pandemic, police shootings, foreign wars, the White House and more. She joined The Post in 2019 and previously worked at the Star-Ledger and NJ.com in New Jersey.follow on X @marisa_iati

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