Amazon Places Purchase Limit on Emergency Contraceptive Pills

Amazon has positioned a short lived buy restrict of three items per week on emergency contraceptive capsules, the corporate stated on Tuesday.

The transfer comes days after the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling that recognised girls’s constitutional proper to abortion.

Women with undesirable pregnancies within the nation now could face the selection of touring to a different state the place the process stays authorized and out there, shopping for abortion capsules on-line, or having a probably harmful unlawful abortion.

The ruling has additionally had an impression on the demand for over-the counter emergency contraceptive capsules, often known as Plan B, that are taken inside days of sexual activity.

Pharmacy chain CVS Health stated on Monday it was implementing a short lived buy restrict of three on emergency contraceptive capsules Plan B and Aftera, whereas Walgreens Boots Alliance stated it had no buy restrict in place for Plan B capsules right now.

Following the Supreme Court ruling, Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly eradicating posts that provide abortion capsules to girls who could not be capable of entry them following a Supreme Court determination that stripped away constitutional protections for the process.

Such social media posts ostensibly aimed to assist girls dwelling in states the place preexisting legal guidelines banning abortion immediately snapped into impact on Friday. That’s when the excessive court docket overruled Roe vs Wade, its 1973 determination that declared entry to abortion a constitutional proper.

Memes and standing updates explaining how girls might legally acquire abortion capsules within the mail exploded throughout social platforms. Some even provided to mail the prescriptions to girls dwelling in states that now ban the process.

General mentions of abortion capsules, in addition to posts mentioning particular variations reminiscent of mifepristone and misoprostol, immediately spiked Friday morning throughout Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TV broadcasts, based on an evaluation by the media intelligence agency Zignal Labs.