Online searches for the abortion pill reached a record national high during the first week of May, right after the leak of a draft of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
According to research published Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine, Google searches that mentioned the abortion pill or the abortion medications mifepristone/Mifeprex and misoprostol/Cytotec surged after the May 2 leak.
Seven public health researchers reported in the letter that during the 72 hours after the May 2 leak, hourly searches for the terms were 162% higher than usual.
Altogether, they said 350,000 Google searches came from the U.