Women who are not pregnant stock up on abortion pills; according to A new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Requesting a prescription for abortion pills even if you are not pregnant is called “advance provision.” Such requests have spiked in two recent periods, including after the leak of the Supreme Court's draft judgment on May 2, 2022. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization And in April 2023, after contradictory rulings regarding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of mifepristone, the first drug used in two-drug abortions, Mother Jones said: report of research.
The study looked at data from Aid Access, a nonprofit organization that lets doctors prescribe and mail abortion pills to women across the United States, including states with laws protecting unborn children. Researchers report finding that the average number of requests per day for aid access for “advance provision” increased to approximately 247 requests per day over the next seven weeks after the breach. has been done. Dobbs decision and when the Supreme Court issued its final decision.
According to the report:
After the Supreme Court handed down its final ruling in June 2022, applications fell to about 89 per day, but they spiked again last April. contradictory judgments Reports about the FDA approval of mifepristone have brought the abortion pill back into the headlines, resulting in an average of about 172 requests for advance delivery of the drug per day.
It is important to note that the lawsuit surrounding the FDA's approval of mifepristone is currently before the Supreme Court, and the abortion pill remains available.
The report said that before the draft decision was leaked, Aid Access received about 6,000 “advance” requests, a rate of about 25 requests per day.
Abigail Aiken, lead author of the study and associate professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, said that nearly 75% of study participants wanted to “ensure personal health and choice” and “prepare for the possibility of an abortion.” He said that he was stockpiling abortion pills for the purpose of limit. “
Interestingly, the report found that non-pregnant women who requested the most abortion pills were white, childless women over 30 years old, and lived in urban areas with lower-than-average poverty rates. It is said that he did.
“Meanwhile, data shows that most people who get abortions are women of color in their 20s who already have children. It is shownand almost half are alive Under Federal Poverty Line,” the Mother Jones report points out, and goes on to say:
Differences in the demographics of those who receive abortions and those who are able to receive advance provision of abortion pills may be due in part to cost. Aid Access charges a $150 advance fee. The group provides funding to people who can't afford the pills, but its help may not be as widely known.
The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute says mifepristone is Already used It accounts for more than half of all abortions in the United States. In 2020, the drug accounted for 53% of abortions, up from 39% in 2017.
According to Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist, Mifepristone block The action of progesterone produced by the mother to nourish the pregnancy. When progesterone is blocked, the mother's endometrial lining deteriorates, cutting off blood and nutrients to the developing baby, causing it to die in the mother's womb. Next, a drug called misoprostol (also called Cytotec) causes contractions and bleeding to expel the baby from the mother's womb.
