More than 5,000 requests for abortion pills made in 12 hours after Trump's win as Americans stockpile [View all]
Source: The Independent
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The top abortion pill supplier in the US received more than 5,000 requests for medication in the first 12 hours after Donald Trump was projected to win the 2024 presidential election.
Rebecca Gomperts, founder of the supplier Aid Access, told The Guardian the 5,000 requests over 12 hours even surpasses the orders they received in June 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which guaranteed the right to an abortion nationwide.
“We have an extremely streamlined process and we are capable of dealing with all the requests really fast,” Gomperts told The Guardian. “But it’s much more [than usual]. And I think the reason is people are now much more aware – people are aware of the possibility of the abortion pill and aware of the threat it will be taken off the market.”
Gomperts’s organization wasn’t alone. The telehealth service Wisp saw a 300 percent uptick in emergency contraception orders, and the abortion pill site Plan C saw a more than 600 percent increase in traffic, The Guardian reports. Abortion was on the ballot in ten states this Election Day. In seven of those states, voters chose to expand abortion rights or even enshrine them in their state constitutions.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-abortion-medication-access-b2643847.html
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