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The number of online requests for abortion pills has surged nationwide in the months following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, with the largest increases being reported in states that now have total or near-total bans on abortions.
Requests for abortion medication through telemedicine methods increased in 30 states following the court’s decision on June 24 with 62.4% of respondents citing “current abortion restrictions” as the reason for their request, according to a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association released on Tuesday. That’s a significant increase from the 31.4% who cited similar reasons when requesting abortion pills online before Roe was overturned.
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Between September 2021 and May 2022, before the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was released, roughly 83 people were submitting daily online requests for abortion medication through Aid Access, a telemedicine service that mails the pills to customers in the United States.
Between May 2 and June 24 — the dates on which a draft Dobbs decision was leaked to the press and the day the formal decision was announced — the number increased to about 137 daily requests.
From June 24 through August, that number has increased to 214 daily requests, according to Aid Access.
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Requests were highest in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma, which each had trigger laws that banned abortion in all cases once Roe was overturned.
Almost half of all states have laws in place that either ban or restrict the use of abortion pills, with many enacted even before Roe was overturned. However, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in June that states can’t ban abortion pills that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
