In the 16 months after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, fewer prescriptions for birth control pills and emergency contraceptives were filled in states with the most restrictions on abortion, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Network Open. The researchers found a 5.6% decrease in birth control pill prescriptions in states with the strictest abortion laws, relative to states that continued to allow access to abortion.
“You’re only looking at a part of what’s happening,” she said, though she added that her own research separately found a temporary increase in oral contraception use in the month after Dobbs, and then an overall decrease through December 2022. The study period also ended before the United States’ first over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill, became available. Birth control pills are the most commonly used hormonal contraceptive in the U.S.
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