Amazon to limit purchases of Plan B and other emergency contraceptive pills

Amazon is limiting gross sales of Plan B and different emergency contraceptives to a few models per buyer within the wake of elevated demand, the corporate confirmed to . Final week’s US Supreme Court docket overturning of Roe v. Wade prompted a spike in gross sales of Plan B and different generic manufacturers of levonorgestrel morning-after drugs. 

Clients who order emergency contraception on Amazon nonetheless face a little bit of a wait. Amazon’s major itemizing for Plan B (a well-liked identify model of levonorgestrel made by an organization referred to as Basis Shopper Healthcare) shows an estimated supply vary of July 19 by means of August 6. MyChoice, a generic model of levonorgestrel that’s cheaper than Plan B shows a supply date of July 28. Engadget has reached out to Amazon for an estimate on when it is going to take away its cap on gross sales, and can replace if we hear again. 

Ceremony-Assist can also be capping each on-line and in-person gross sales of emergency contraception to a few per buyer. Walmart has a extra beneficiant restrict of 10 models of Plan B per buyer, and Goal limits on-line gross sales of Plan B to 6 orders per buyer. Following a short lived cap on gross sales, each Walgreens and CVS have eliminated on Plan B as of Tuesday night.

“We proceed to have ample provide of emergency contraceptives to fulfill buyer wants,” Matt Blanchette, CVS’s senior supervisor of retail communications CNN.

Those that don’t wish to flip to Amazon or a significant drugstore chain produce other on-line choices for Plan. Each Instacart and GoPuff additionally supply Plan B for same-day supply. Various telehealth startups reminiscent of Wisp, Nurx and promote generic emergency contraceptive drugs (although gross sales are restricted to sure states). Gross sales of emergency contraceptive merchandise on Wisp spiked by 40 p.c following a leak of the court docket’s resolution again in Might, Wisp confirmed to Engadget. Moreover, gross sales had been 25 occasions the day by day common for Might on Friday, the day of the court docket’s ruling.

“We have now been in a position to meet the present surge in demand. We’re not placing any restrictions on emergency contraceptive drugs,” famous Wisp CEO Ahmad Bani in a press release to Engadget.