Key PointsQuestion What is the association between the US Supreme Court’s July 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision and fills for oral and emergency contraceptives? Objectives To evaluate the association between the Dobbs decision and fills for oral and emergency contraceptives in states that enacted the most restrictive abortion policies after Dobbs. The Dobbs decision had oral arguments on December 1, 2021, and the decision was formally announced on June 24, 2022. Accordingly, we extracted monthly rates in the following periods: before the Dobbs oral arguments (March 2021 to November 2021), after the oral arguments were made but before the Dobbs decision was announced (December 2021 to June 2022), the first year after the Dobbs decision (July 2022 to June 2023), and more than 1 year after the Dobbs decision (July to October 2023). We did this to assess whether declines in use of oral contraceptives were offset by increases in use of nonoral contraceptives.

Source: New York Times June 26, 2024 15:22 UTC