Women stockpile abortion pills as legal challenges advance
The number of requests for medication used to induce an abortion shot up after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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The number of requests for medication used to induce an abortion shot up after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Requests for abortion pills from people who were not yet pregnant spiked when patients appeared to perceive threats to abortion access, new research has found.
Nationally, the average number of daily requests shot up nearly tenfold, from about 25 in the eight months before the May 2022 Roe v. Wade leak to 247 after.
Thousands of women in the U.S. have stocked up on abortion pills just in case they need them.
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