The move comes days after the US Supreme
Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling that recognised women's
constitutional right to abortion.
Women with unwanted pregnancies in the
country now may face the choice of traveling to another state where the
procedure remains legal and available, buying abortion pills online, or having
a potentially dangerous illegal abortion.
The ruling has also had an impact on the
demand for over-the counter emergency contraceptive pills, known as Plan B,
which are taken within days of sexual intercourse.
Pharmacy chain CVS Health said on Monday it
was implementing a temporary purchase limit of three on emergency contraceptive
pills Plan B and Aftera, while Walgreens Boots Alliance said it had no purchase
limit in place for Plan B pills at this time.
Following the Supreme Court ruling,
Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion
pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court
decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure.
Such social media posts ostensibly aimed to
help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly
snapped into effect on Friday. That's when the high court overruled Roe vs
Wade, its 1973 decision that declared access to abortion a constitutional
right.
Memes and status updates explaining how
women could legally obtain abortion pills in the mail exploded across social
platforms. Some even offered to mail the prescriptions to women living in
states that now ban the procedure.
General mentions of abortion pills, as well
as posts mentioning specific versions such as mifepristone and misoprostol,
suddenly spiked Friday morning across Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TV
broadcasts, according to an analysis by the media intelligence firm Zignal
Labs.
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