Morning-after pill sales surge online, telehealth companies say, as women prepare for second Trump term
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Online sales of emergency contraceptives, like the morning-after pill Plan B, have skyrocketed in the United States in the last week – just days after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, according to retailers.
Online sales of emergency contraceptives, like the morning-after pill Plan B, have skyrocketed in the United States in the past week – days after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, according to retailers. The surge in sales suggests that women are concerned about how a forthcoming Trump administration could restrict their access to emergency contraception, and they are preparing now, said Monica Cepak, CEO of the sexual and reproductive telehealth company Wisp. At Wisp, which offers two types of emergency contraception online, sales of those medications went up about 1,000% in just one day after Tuesday’s election. “We are seeing women actually stockpile emergency contraception pills,” Cepak said. “We 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.” At startup Winx Health, a sexual and vaginal health company, sales of its morning-after pill Restart were up 315% on the day after the election compared with the 24 hours before the election. That means seven times more doses of Restart were sold on the day after the election than in the entire week prior, according to the company. “Things skyrocketed immediately,” said Cynthia Plotch, co-founder of Winx Health.
