Mental health care and medical abortion are on the rise amid the election

Following the 2024 presidential election, which put Donald Trump in the White House for a second term, Americans’ demand for mental health facility visits and contraception and medical abortion orders has increased.

reported data from Zocdoc, a web-based medical appointment booking service, which showed a 22% increase in mental health appointments the day after the election. Calls for greater than doubling of mental health care for Lyra Health, the world’s leading provider of mental healthcare services for workers. The company identified nearly half of its 24-hour hotline patients as first-time callers.

According to sexual and reproductive health platform Wisp, medical abortion orders skyrocketed to 600% on November 5. The day after the election, the company saw a virtually 1,000% increase in sales of emergency contraceptives. “Trump’s nomination as president-elect has created further uncertainty about women’s reproductive rights,” said Monica Cepak, CEO of Wisp. The company saw sales of emergency contraceptives from recent customers increase by 1,650%. “These statistics show that women are stockpiling this offer in anticipation of further restrictions being introduced,” Cepak added.

As already mentioned by o BLACK ENTERPRISESafter v. was overturned in 2022, abortion rights amendments were amongst Americans’ top concerns heading into the 2024 presidential election. November ballots in 10 states, including Florida, Montana, Colorado and Nebraska, in line with NBC News exit polls , included abortion initiatives. Voters showed strong support for abortion in states akin to Arizona, Maryland, New York and Nevada in an effort to guard reproductive rights.

Proponents of reproduction he said what Trump’s victory could mean for black women in America, who reportedly have higher maternal mortality rates in comparison with their white counterparts. Kelly Blanchard, president of the global sexual and reproductive health research nonprofit IBIS Reproductive Health, believes Kamala Harris has been a “true advocate for sexual and reproductive health rights and justice.” Under the recent Trump administration, Power to Decide senior policy manager Monica Edwards fears that “this Project 2025 document will now be the playbook for the contraception ban, the abortion ban, and the broad ban on reproductive health rights and justice.”

TO BE noted the report published in May by the National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF) and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, which revealed that of the 11.8 million black women of childbearing age nationwide, seven million live in states where abortion restrictions have been or are planned.