Amazon Places Purchase Limit on Emergency Contraceptive Pills

Amazon has positioned a short lived buy restrict of three models per week on emergency contraceptive drugs, the corporate mentioned on Tuesday.

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

Women with undesirable pregnancies within the nation now might face the selection of touring to a different state the place the process stays authorized and out there, shopping for abortion drugs 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 drugs, generally known as Plan B, that are taken inside days of sexual activity.

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

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

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

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

General mentions of abortion drugs, in addition to posts mentioning particular variations equivalent to mifepristone and misoprostol, instantly spiked Friday morning throughout Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TV broadcasts, in accordance with an evaluation by the media intelligence agency Zignal Labs.