Amazon to restrict purchases of Plan B and different emergency contraceptive capsules

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

Clients who order emergency contraception on Amazon nonetheless face a little bit of a wait. Amazon’s essential itemizing for Plan B (a well-liked identify model of levonorgestrel made by an organization known as Basis Shopper Healthcare) shows an estimated supply vary of July 19 by way 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 would take away its cap on gross sales, and can replace if we hear again. 

Ceremony-Support 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 items 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 need to flip to Amazon or a serious drugstore chain produce other on-line choices for Plan. Each Instacart and GoPuff additionally supply Plan B for same-day supply. Various telehealth startups akin to Wisp, Nurx and promote generic emergency contraceptive capsules (although gross sales are restricted to sure states). Gross sales of emergency contraceptive merchandise on Wisp spiked by 40 % following a leak of the courtroom’s resolution again in Could, Wisp confirmed to Engadget. Moreover, gross sales have been 25 instances the every day common for Could on Friday, the day of the courtroom’s ruling.

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