American women stockpile contraceptive pills before Trump's term begins over abortion access concerns
American women stockpile abortion pills ahead of Trump's term
Around a week after the US Presidential elections and Donald Trump's victory, the electoral decision has left some women fearful for abortion access nationwide. With this, there has been a surge in online sales of emergency contraceptives, including the morning-after pill Plan B, according to retailers.
This surge in sales highlights that women are concerned about how the incoming Trump term could restrict their access to emergency contraception, and they are preparing now, Monica Cepak, CEO of the sexual and reproductive telehealth company Wisp said.
Wisp offers two types of emergency contraception onlineand said its sale has gone up about 1000 per cent in just one day after Tuesday's election.
“We are seeing women actually stockpile emergency contraception pills,” Cepak said. “We actually recently launched multipacks of Plan B, and this was the driver of a lot of the increase in orders that we saw. About 90 per cent of emergency contraception orders are those multipacks.”
At another sexual and vaginal health firm, Winx Health, a startup, the sales of its morning-after pill Restart were up 315 per cent on the day after the election compared with the 24 hours before the US polls.
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“Things skyrocketed immediately,” said Cynthia Plotch, co-founder of Winx Health.
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“We’re seeing the majority of these sales come from our multipack. So it’s not that women are buying a single product. They’re stockpiling to have them on hand for themselves, for their friends, for their sisters,” Plotch said.
“Something that I am taking away from this experience is that women are smart. Women are savvy. We didn’t make our bodies political. They were made to be political pawns, and now we’re learning how to take back that control,” she said. “I think that is why we are seeing the trends that we are seeing.”
Meanwhile, some physicians reported a surge in patients asking not only about their options for these types of emergency contraception, but also long-acting contraception like intrauterine devices, or IUDs.
Moreover, some of these patients are also asking to receive either medications or procedures before US President-elect Trump is sworn into office in January.
Two days after the election, Dr Clayton Alfonso, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Duke Health in North Carolina, said, "I had four requests from patients for either permanent sterilization or an IUD, and all four of them were saying, ‘Can I please get this done before inauguration?’"
(With inputs from agencies)
