News reports in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s election told of women, concerned over threats to the Affordable Care Act and Planned Parenthood, rushing to get long-term forms of birth control, including IUDs and hormonal implants. A study in JAMA Internal Medicine, published Monday, validated those anecdotal reports, documenting a spike in women seeking long-acting, reversible contraception, otherwise known as LARC. A separate report published in March 2017 by the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology further bolsters the correlation. It noted that of more than 2,100 reproductive-aged women and girls studied in the U.S., 5 percent obtained LARC in the two months after the election. Trump has vowed repeatedly to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, but it still stands with modifications, and most types of birth control remain covered under the measure.

Source: Huffington Post February 05, 2019 12:22 UTC