By Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter<\/b>
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, retailers report that online sales of emergency contraceptives have soared.<\/p>\n
The spike in purchases of what is also known as the morning-after pill or Plan B suggests women worry the incoming administration might soon limit their access to emergency contraception, Monica Cepak<\/a>, CEO of the sexual and reproductive telehealth company Wisp, told CNN<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are seeing women actually stockpile emergency contraception pills,\u201d said Cepak, who noted that sales spiked 1,000% in the first day after the election. \u201cWe actually recently launched multipacks of Plan B, and this was the driver of a lot of the increase in orders that we saw. About 90% of emergency contraception orders are those multipacks.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Winx Health, a sexual and vaginal health company, said that sales of its morning-after pill Restart were up 315% on the day after the election compared with the day before the election.<\/p>\n \u201cThings skyrocketed immediately,\u201d Cynthia Plotch,<\/a> co-founder of Winx Health, told CNN.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re seeing the majority of these sales come from our multipack. So, it\u2019s not that women are buying a single product. They\u2019re stockpiling to have them on hand for themselves, for their friends, for their sisters,\u201d Plotch said.<\/p>\n Emergency contraception is a method of birth control that can prevent pregnancy shortly after someone has sex. It\u2019s not the same as a medication abortion because morning-after pills only work if the user isn’t already pregnant, while medication abortion ends a pregnancy, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists<\/a>.<\/p>\n Still, when women live in states with abortion restrictions, \u201cthey think that they also don\u2019t have access to this product, too,\u201d Plotch said of emergency contraception.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s important to recognize is that all of those are interrelated,\u201d Amy Friedrich-Karnik<\/a>, director of federal policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that supports abortion rights, told CNN<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you attack one piece of reproductive health care, it really has a ripple effect,\u201d Friedrich-Karnik explained.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople who need abortion care often also at some point need contraception, and people who need contraception might eventually need maternal health care,\u201d she added. \u201cPeople\u2019s lives are fluid like that, and this care is fluid, and you can\u2019t attack one piece of reproductive health care without really impacting the whole range of care that people need.\u201d<\/p>\n More information<\/strong><\/p>\n The Cleveland Clinic has more on the morning after pill.<\/a><\/p>\n