There has been a sharp increase in demand for birth control, emergency contraception, and abortion pills as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe v. Wade.
Parents and women have been hoarding options out of concern that access to family planning services may be restricted.
According to certain clinics, the number of appointments has increased by four, and the nonprofit Just the Pill has received 100 inquiries in the hours following the ruling.
When Katie Thomas, 42, learned that abortion would no longer be permitted in the state, she said she bought drugs for her daughter, who is 16 years old.
“I want to be able to manage that,” she said, according to The New York Times, “just the concept of something happening to my daughter, whether by force or by her choice, and there’s an unwanted pregnancy.”
I’ll take care of that on my own if I have to.
She claimed that in case her son, 21, and his girlfriend ever needed it, she had been stockpiling the emergency contraceptive Plan B and purchased more on Friday.
According to Lauren Frazier, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Southeast in Atlanta, calls from worried women asking how many pills they may hoard have surged.
Women are being cautioned by other abortion and healthcare professionals not to totally empty the shelves so that others who urgently want pills can receive them.
Hey Jane, a startup that offers telemedicine abortions in six states, reported that after the court ruling, patient demand doubled and website traffic increased by 1,000% on Friday.
It is anticipated that abortion pills will be the subject of numerous court cases in states attempting to prohibit abortion.
With no exceptions for rape or incest, 13 states have already implemented new legislation, with Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Missouri completely outlawing them.
For the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, medical abortion is still permitted by the Food and Drug Administration.
It requires a woman to take two medications between 24 and 48 hours of one another to induce contractions akin to a miscarriage, which expel the fetus and result in significant bleeding.
Medication is a prominent option for women seeking to have an abortion because it is less expensive, less invasive, and the pills may be shipped to your home.
A bartender with amnesia claims that she often wakes up believing she is six years old once again, even believing her fiance is a kidnapper.
Chloe Barnard, 29, suddenly forgets her entire lifetimes and occasionally suspects her devoted partner of nine years of being a child molester.
Chloe’s memories typically return after 24 hours, but when she forgets who he is, James, 39, has to try to calm her down.
Chloe, from Leicestershire, has on occasion even threatened James with a spanner and requested assistance from complete strangers by calling the police.
Chloe suffers from a rare neurological disorder that is thought to have been brought on by a stroke.
She claimed the memory loss episodes were sporadic and might transport her to various points in her life.
I can travel back in time and be any age, Chloe declared. I’ve gone back to my sixth birthday. What a horrible thing.
“One night, James and I had a small barny, but I had gone to bed because I was mardy with him when something startled me to wakefulness.
I didn’t recognize the house, but I thought, “It must be mine because there’s a staircase and I’m only six,” so I went downstairs and found a stairgate.
“My partner and the dog—whose ownership I was unaware of—were sitting on the couch. Who are you, and who is the dog? I asked while sitting on the stairs. I long to see my parents.
He didn’t panic since he knew what to do. When he brought me back upstairs, he stripped down to his underwear before telling me to come into bed. I informed him that I didn’t want to share a bed with a paedo and that I preferred my parents.
I was there with my grandmother’s teddy bear. He seized my phone while I attempted to call the cops. I was unwilling to let him touch me. I grabbed a spanner so I could injure him if necessary.
He asked what I was going to do with it, and I replied that I would strike him with it if he came close to me and that I wanted my parents.
He soothed my anxiety by saying, “I know your mother and father.” I was completely OK the next morning when we called them and got their explanation.
Chloe also recalled a time when she mistook James for a kidnapper and needed her mother to reassure her that everything was fine. At the time, Chloe believed she was 16 years old.
Until the amnesia wore off and she recalled who she was, she claimed that when she dozed off later, she believed herself to be 19 years old.
She stated that the episodes, which are frequently brought on by stress or lack of sleep, happen every few months for her. Doctors believe they are related to a stroke she experienced when she was 19 years old.
Chloe acknowledges that getting enough sleep is key to preventing the episodes, but warns that they can strike at any time.
According to the consultant, it typically only occurs twice in a person’s lifetime, but for me, it does so on average once every two months.
They claim that stress is a component and that the more sleep I receive, the more alert I am. They’re not sure if there’s a relationship, but if there is, it didn’t start happening for six years after my stroke.
“I simply have to live with it,” she said, “but it leaves you exhausted and sometimes take a week to recover from.”
James handles it extremely well, but he is concerned. Having to care for someone going through it is something I could never understand.