CVS and Rite Aid Among Pharmacies Limiting Emergency Contraceptive Pills

Pharmacy chains across the U.S have began to restrict the quantity of emergency contraceptive capsules clients should buy. This comes after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court.

“Due to increased demand, at this time we are limiting the purchases of Plan B contraceptive pills to three per customer,” a Rite Aid consultant instructed CNN. CVS may even be limiting the acquisition of Plan B and Aftera throughout all CVS Pharmacy shops and its web site CVS.com “to ensure equitable access and consistent supply on store shelves.”

A survey exhibits round one-fourth of American Women have apparently sooner or later of their lives used emergency contraception capsules, as reported by NPR. Reproductive well being corporations and suppliers have noticed a notable improve of gross sales of those capsules after the Supreme Court announcement. Stix, a reproductive well being model, reported its morning-after capsule gross sales surged by greater than 600 % within the 24 hours after Roe v. Wade’s overturning, in keeping with the New York Times. Wisp, a web-based reproductive and sexual well being supplier, discovered a 3,000% surge in sale of its emergency contraceptive capsules, in keeping with CBS News.

Emergency contraception is a type of contraception that can be utilized “if you had sex without using birth control or if your birth control method did not work,” in keeping with the Office on Women’s Health. It is completely different to the abortion capsule as emergency contraception capsules don’t work to cease your being pregnant. The emergency contraceptive capsule works by stopping or delaying ovulation, and fewer generally could stop fertilization of the egg by sperm if ovulation has already occurred.

Limits for the capsules are in place not simply at Rite Aid and CVS. A Walmart spokesperson instructed ABC News that “many of [the company’s] products have online purchase limits in place,” however didn’t specify what this implies for morning-after capsules. Walgreens, nevertheless, has mentioned it has “no plans at this time” to place restrictions on the sale of morning-after capsules. However, when confirming this ourselves by making an attempt to buy Plan B on-line, we received a pop up stating “Plan B One-Step Emergency Contraceptive is not available at this time and has been removed from your cart.” Availability may differ in bodily shops.

The listing of pharmacies limiting buy of the capsule could develop sooner or later as properly, however we’ll replace that listing as pharmacy insurance policies are available.