Demand for contraceptives is rising as women stock up on supplies ahead of Trump’s presidency

By his third presidential run, Trump had changed his mind on abortion rights, calling it a state’s rights issue and declaring he would veto a national abortion ban. Nevertheless, Trump repeatedly emphasized his role in overturning the ruling by the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade In 2022, the federal right to abortion, which some Democrats have used to justify their claims that it poses a threat to women’s health care, will end.

The idea, repeatedly raised during the campaign, that Republicans will use their majority and the now expected trifecta to restrict contraception for at least the next two years has left many people fearful of access.

“We’re seeing that women are actually hoarding emergency contraceptive pills,” Monica Cepak, CEO of sexual and reproductive telemedicine company Wisp, told CNN. “We actually recently launched multipacks of Plan B and this was the catalyst for a big increase in orders that we saw. Approximately 90% of emergency contraception orders are such multipacks.”

Wisp offers two types of emergency contraceptives online and reported that sales of the drugs increased by about 1,000% just a day after last Tuesday’s election. Multipacks of Plan B, or the morning-after pill, accounted for 92% of all emergency contraceptives purchased from Wisp at the time.

A day after the election, purchases of emergency contraceptive pills rose 930% in Texas, 730% in Indiana and 133% in Oklahoma, according to data shared with Wisp hill.

Sexual and vaginal health startup Winx Health saw sales of its Restart morning-after pill increase 315% the day after the election compared to the 24 hours before the election.

“Things skyrocketed immediately,” said Cynthia Plotch, co-founder of Winx Health. “We see that the majority of these sales come from our multipack. So it’s not like women buy a single product. They stock up to have on hand for themselves, for their friends, for their sisters.”

Clayton Alfonso, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Duke Health in North Carolina and a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told CNN that requests for IUD implants and other reproductive treatments have skyrocketed in 2022 roe was knocked over.

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He said that two days after the election, he “received four requests from patients for permanent sterilization or an IUD, and all four said, ‘Can I please do this before the inauguration?'”

Alfonso said that while this increase occurred two years ago, these requests are now “darker.” He said: “I see that these patients are rightly afraid of what is going to happen.”