The study authors attribute the decline to the closure of abortion clinics, where many people access prescriptions for contraception. Post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 63 brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in 14 states closed, including 24 in Texas. “Because 11 percent of women rely on such clinics for the provision of prescriptions for contraceptives — many of which are filled at outside pharmacies — these closures may have reduced access to oral and emergency contraceptives,” Qato said in a press release. Declines in emergency contraception prescriptions filled were greatest in the most restrictive states that had closed a larger share of their family-planning clinics.
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