Amazon is limiting sales of Plan B and other emergency contraceptives to three units per customer following increased demand. . Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade dismissed his case requested a increase in sales Plan B and other generic brands of levonorgestrel are morning after pills.
Customers ordering emergency contraception on Amazon still face a bit of a wait. of Amazon main list The estimated delivery window for Plan B (a popular brand of levonorgestrel made by a company called Foundation Consumer Healthcare) is between July 19 and August 6. MyChoice is a General Brand The delivery date for levonorgestrel, which is cheaper than Plan B, is July 28. Engadget has reached out to Amazon for an estimate of when it will lift the sales cap and will update if we hear back.
Rite-Aid also limits sales of emergency contraception, both online and in person, to three per customer. Walmart is more generous boundary 10 units of Plan B per customer and Target limits Plan B’s online sales to six orders per customer. Both Walgreens and CVS have been removed after a temporary cap on sales On Plan B from Tuesday evening.
“We continue to provide an ample supply of emergency contraceptives to meet customer needs,” said Matt Blanchette, CVS’s senior director of retail communications. CNN.
Those who don’t want to resort to Amazon or a large pharmacy chain have other online options for the Plan. Both Instacart and GoPuff also offer Plan B for same-day delivery. a number of telehealth initiatives such as wispy, nurx and sell generic emergency contraceptive pills (although sales are limited to certain states). Wisp confirmed to Engadget that sales of emergency contraception products at Wisp rose 40 percent after the court order was leaked in May. Also, on the Friday of the court order, sales were 25 times the daily average for May.
“We were able to meet the current increase in demand. “We do not place any restrictions on emergency contraceptives,” Wisp CEO Ahmad Bani told Engadget.
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