WISP, a private online pharmacy focused on sexual and reproductive health products, with over 1.2 million patients nationwide in the USA and more in Canada, reported a 1,000 per cent increase in emergency contraception purchases from 5 November to 6 November 2024. They say women are stockpiling these products and contraceptives for when Trump is back in the White House in January.
Aid Access, Women on Web’s telehealth abortion pill service in the USA, announced that they received 5,000 requests for abortion pills in the first 12 hours after Trump was projected to win, five times more than in a usual day, which even surpassed the number of orders they received in June 2022 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
Plan C, one of the first US telehealth abortion pill providers, say they saw a more than 600 per cent increase in requests for abortion pills. Founder, Elisa Wells, said: “Someone gave us a donation today with the message ‘Don’t let the bastards get you down’. Politicians are not going to stop access, and they’re not going to stop us.”
SOURCES: Business Insider, by Katie Balevic. 10 November 2024 ; The Guardian, by Emily Shugerman, 7 November 2024 ; PR Newswire, 9 August 2022. See also the December 2023 review of WISP services.