The U.S. saw a dramatic increase in demand for reproductive health medications following the reelection of Donald Trump last week, with many Americans seeking to stockpile reproductive health medications in fear that the new administration may restrict access to emergency contraception and abortion pills across the country.

“Prior to the election results coming out, earlier this month, we had 4,500 visitors per day. [On November 6] we had 82,900 visitors. It’s a huge surge in people looking for information about how to access abortion,” Elisa Wells, co-founder of Plan C, a non-profit that provides abortion medication by mail, told Global News last week. According to The Guardian, Plan C experienced a 625 percent surge in traffic after Trump’s victory was announced.

“We also know from talking to providers that they have seen a huge surge in requests for abortion pills,” Wells told Global News.

The telehealth service Wisp saw a 300 percent spike in requests for emergency contraception following the announcement of Trump’s win, according to The Guardian. There was also a significant rise in bulk Plan B orders, which jumped from about 30 percent of emergency contraceptive orders earlier in the month to nearly 90 percent on Wednesday. The telehealth site Hey Jane also reported that requests for birth control had doubled after the election, while Winx, another women’s health service, said it had sold six times as many doses of Plan B by Wednesday afternoon as it had in the entire previous week.

Another organization, Aid Access, which is the number one supplier of abortion pills by mail in the United States, also reported a sharp spike in sales. In........

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