Appointment requests have jumped 83 percent over the past month at Just the Pill’s mobile medication abortion clinic in Colorado. The organization drives the clinic along the state’s northern and eastern borders to serve patients coming from Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma and other nearby states.
In the four weeks leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the organization saw 437 appointment requests. In the four weeks after, that number spiked to 801, which has strained staff.
“It’s emotionally and physically draining work,” said Kathryn Mavengere, a spokeswoman for the organization, in an emailed statement. “As frontline caregivers, we carry the load of providing hands-on-care in the midst of a chaotic political landscape.”
To help absorb demand, Just the Pill plans to open another, larger mobile clinic that offers procedural abortions later this summer, the organization said in a statement.
Planned Parenthood, Colorado’s largest abortion provider, said the huge uptick is also happening in other states where abortion remains legal. And the demand is not just for abortion services. Contraception visits are also skyrocketing.
“On June 24th, the day the Supreme court overturned Roe, there was a 150-percent increase in birth control appointments scheduled at planned parenthood health centers, a 375-percent increase in IUD appointments, and a 48-percent increase in the number of emergency contraception appointments,” said Danika Severino Wynn, the Vice President of Abortion Access for Planned Parenthood.
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