The US Supreme Court ruling that overturned the nationwide right to abortion has spurred a rush to prepare for an America where the procedure is banned in many states.
"Birth control,""IUD" and even medical sterilization have all jumped in internet search trends, and drugstore chains have limited purchases of so-called morning-after pills to cope with demand.
Kratzer, 39, is a stay-at-home mom in San Antonio, Texas, the southern US state with some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country. Although Kratzer can no longer have kids herself for health reasons, the pills she has stored up are for her three children -- ages 15, 19 and 20. Emergency contraception pills have a shelf life of three to four years, and Kratzer hopes the ones she and many others have stockpiled will provide enough time for the United States to reinstate abortion rights -- though that may be unlikely.If not"I will be going to other countries and picking up and finding a way to bring it back," she said.Kayla Pickett is also worried about what other rights the Supreme Court might overturn, beyond abortion.
In the meantime, Pickett has joined others rushing to get an IUD . She began making plans for the procedure in May, after the draft ruling leaked. She has already begun the process for"getting my tubes tied," she explained. Her pre-operative consultation is on July 9.She had her first pregnancy scare in early May, around the same time as the Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion leaked, and remembers feeling"terrified.""I need a permanent solution so that I never have to feel this way again."
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