Donald Trump’s victory in the US election raises important questions about how the issue of women’s abortion rights will evolve.
More than two years after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade repealing the constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion, the future of women’s reproductive rights looks even more uncertain after the Republican election victory.
According to the Washington Post, women are seeking abortion drugs in greater numbers than usual ahead of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Sales of the abortion drug have soared in recent days in the US as women look to stock up before the tycoon takes office.
Aid Access, one of the biggest suppliers of abortion pills, said it received 10,000 requests for the drug in the 24 hours after Trump’s victory, 17 times more than a typical day of 600.
The NGO Just the Pill, which prescribes abortion drugs via telemedicine, said 22 of its 125 orders from Wednesday to Friday were from women who are not pregnant.
It’s usually “rare” for someone to request this kind of “advance provision,” said Julie Amaon, the organization’s interim executive director.
Still, Plan C, which provides information on access to abortion drugs, said it received 82,200 visitors to its website on Wednesday, compared with about 4,000 or 4,500 visitors per day before the election.
Reproductive health organizations and companies also said demand for emergency contraceptives, the morning-after pill and long-term contraceptive methods such as intrauterine devices, implants and vasectomy have also increased, but did not provide specific numbers.
“People are realizing that the threat of restricting access to abortion under Trump is real,” Brittany Fonteno, president of the National Abortion Federation, a professional association of abortion providers, told WP. “People are very concerned about being able to get the care they need.”
Carolyn Leavid, a spokeswoman for the president-elect’s transition team, said “President Trump has long been consistent in supporting states’ rights to make abortion decisions.”
Trump has repeatedly shifted positions on abortion, calling himself the president who has supported abortion bans more than anyone else, while promising to veto a federal ban on the procedure.
But in his first term, he appointed three justices to the Supreme Court who were certain to vote to overturn the landmark pro-abortion decision, Roe v. Wade, as it did, in June 2022. That was the main reason. who appointed them, reports the newspaper article.
At the same time, American doctors opposed to abortion have brought lawsuits to limit access to mifepristone, one of two drugs taken at a fixed time to induce miscarriage.
According to the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, daily non-pregnant requests to Aid Access for abortion drugs increased nearly 10-fold after the Supreme Court decision.
Women with private insurance also sought more contraceptive implants after Trump was first elected in 2016.
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