What: A study from JAMA Internal Medicine looked at records from the nonprofit Aid Access and found women in the United States requested abortion pills in case they became pregnant unexpectedly around 25 times per day before the Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe was leaked to about 118 times per day in the months after.
Why it matters: Women are planning ahead for the unexpected, regardless of what state lawmakers try to force them to do.
Source: New York Times
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One organization got requests for 5,000 pills in less than 12 hours. They typically ship 9,000 pills in an entire month.