While suppliers of abortion pills expected to see a rise in requests for the medication after Donald Trump was elected president, they were shocked by the sudden surge immediately after his win was declared, according to a report.
Aid Access is the top abortion pill supplier by mail in the United States. In a typical month, the company said they may see around 9,000 orders, but on Wednesday, Aid Access said they received more than 5,000 orders in less than 12 hours, as reported by The Guardian.
"I can see all the new requests ticking in as we're talking," Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of Aid Access, told The Guardian. "We've never seen this before."
Plan C, an abortion pill finder site, and Hey Jane and Wisp, telehealth services, said they saw more than double the amount of traffic on their websites of people searching for contraception.
"Clearly, people are trying to plan for the reproductive apocalypse that we anticipate will be happening under a Trump presidency," Elisa Wells, the co-founder of Plan C, told The Guardian.
Trump has previously indicated support for a nationwide ban on abortion, however recent statements from days leading up to the election suggested that he thought it should be left up to the states to decide, as reported by NBC News.
While experts seem to agree that a national abortion ban is unlikely, the possibility of restricted access to abortion pills seems more probable.
"The threats to medication abortion is what we're going to be watching most closely, especially in the first months and year of his administration," Amy Friedrich-Karnik, director for federal policy at the Guttmacher Institute, told NBC News.
Seven states passed pro-abortion measures during the recent election, two of which replaced previous restrictions or bans.
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