Healthcare providers report unprecedented demand for reproductive and gender-affirming medications: ‘We’ve never seen this before’

Summary

Following Trump’s election victory, healthcare providers reported a surge in requests for reproductive and gender-affirming medications, including abortion pills and emergency contraception.

Aid Access, the leading U.S. supplier of abortion pills by mail, received over 5,000 requests within 12 hours, a fivefold increase from a typical day.

Telehealth providers like Wisp and Hey Jane reported spikes in requests for emergency contraception, while QueerDoc saw an influx of trans patients seeking guidance on hormone access.

Providers are advising patients to stock up on medication, emphasizing resilience amid uncertainty about potential rollbacks on abortion and trans rights under a second Trump administration.

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      I find that terrifying.

      If we can see it, then the far-right Nationalist Christians can see it.

      People who would bomb a Planned Parenthood clinic would think nothing of producing fake abortion cards and drugging or murdering women trying to give themselves an abortion.

      I’m imagining a card prepared with an overdose of Tylenol on the cards instead of misoprostol.

      How do you guarantee that the card you’re using is legitimate?

      • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        You make it yourself or trust the people you source it from, same way it’s always been

        • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          The video on the website talks about hiding cards where someone could find them.