april of 2023 when there was lot of legal uncertainty around one of the medications, mifepristone, those orders started to spike again. since september 2021, they say there have been more than 48,000 orders for advanced provision of medication abortion pills. of course, these patterns have changed a lot with all of the legal uncertainty. is there any sense of where demand has been the highest? i heard reports of people trying to get medications from mexico. i don t know if it s certain states? yeah, actually they looked at all of the states based on the status of abortion access. what they found is that the states where there was a lot of uncertainty, future bans were potential or expected, that s where they saw the biggest spikes during the periods of uncertainty. they looked at the characteristics of the people who were ordering these advanced provision orders and found that predominantly wealthier white over the age of 30 and didn t
fourth order affects of this post-roe v. wade world. what has it done in terms of demand near? yeah, absolutely. so we know that medication abortion is the most common form of abortion in the united states, accounting for more than half according to data from groups that follow this. these researchers looked at data from aid access, a telehealth provider of medication abortion by mail and they looked at these advanced provision orders. folks ordering this in case they need it. they have been providing this since september 2021 but looked at the impacts around the leak of the dobbs decision, that first spike you see there in may of 2023. they found daily orders for advanced provision medication abortion pills went up by tenfold from an average of 25 day before the leak of that decision to almost 250 orders a day after that. that started to come down a little bit after the actual decision came out, but then in