--- title: "People Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills and Emergency Contraceptives After Roe Reversal" description: "Demand for both abortion and non-abortion emergency contraceptive pills has skyrocketed, putting a lot of added stress on makers, providers, and pharmacies." date: "2022-06-29" modified: "2022-06-29" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/stockpiling-abortion-pills-emergency-contraceptives" categories: - "Health & Medicine" - "Medical" - "RX and Medicine" tags: - "abortion" - "pharmaceuticals" - "supreme court" - "telemedicine" --- # People Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills and Emergency Contraceptives After Roe Reversal ![Demand for both abortion and non-abortion emergency contraceptive pills has skyrocketed, putting a lot of added stress on makers, providers, and pharmacies.]() *\Image: Getty Images/Futurism\* The reverberations of the [Supreme Court decision]() to overturn the abortion-legalizing precedent Roe v. Wade have been swift and severe. Among those immediate consequences? Skyrocketing demand for both abortion and non-abortion emergency contraceptive pills. In other words, it sounds like folks are stockpiling the drugs amid the looming threat to reproductive autonomy. And that also means added stress for the manufacturers, providers, and pharmacies that make and distribute these important pharmaceuticals. "Following the Supreme Court's decision on Friday, June 24, Hey Jane's site traffic grew almost 10 times and patient demand more than doubled compared to the last month's average," Kiki Freedman, CEO of abortion pill provider Hey Jane, [told *Newsweek*](). "In fact, we're treating 25 times more patients daily than we were 15 months ago." According to the CEO, the company had already been seeing a steady increase in traffic from states like Texas, which passed a controversial [Heartbeat Bill]() back in 2021. Now, as states countrywide implement abortion "trigger laws," similar traffic is making its way to Hey Jane and other pill providers, and it's doing so all at once. Meanwhile, Amazon, CVS, and other sellers offering emergency contraception pills — which, we should note, [are *not* a means]() of abortion — have already added purchase limits to drugs like Plan B and Aftera in an attempt to curb stockpiling. "Immediately following the Supreme Court decision, we saw a sharp increase in the sale of emergency contraceptives," read an email from a CVS representative [sent to *CNN*](). Thankfully, the rep maintained that CVS still has enough emergency contraceptives to meet the high demand, but the company was still capping purchases in order to "to ensure equitable access and consistent supply on store shelves." Freeman also confirmed that Hey Jane has enough supply to continue servicing the six states it currently operates in, which is a heartening sign. But the fact remains that while it might take longer to ban or severely restrict abortion in some places, it's expected that [about half of US states]() will eventually do away with most or all abortion access, telemedicine-provided abortion pills included. Efforts to stockpile abortion pills and emergency contraceptives — and, not to mention, attempts to [obtain abortion pills illegally]() — are bound to continue as a result. **READ MORE:** [*Abortion Pill Provider Says Demand Soaring Since Roe v. Wade Overturn*]() \[*Newsweek*\] **More on the criminalization of abortion in America:** [*Facebook Is Automatically Deleting Posts Offering to Mail Abortion Pills*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()