Internet Searches for Abortion Medications Following the Leaked Supreme Court of the United States Draft Ruling

Adam Poliak; Nora Satybaldiyeva; Steffanie A Strathdee; Eric C Leas; Ramesh Rao; Davey Smith; John W Ayers

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.2998

Internet Searches for Abortion Medications Following the Leaked Supreme Court of the United States Draft Ruling

JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Jun 29;e222998. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.2998. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Adam Poliak¹, Nora Satybaldiyeva^{2

3}, Steffanie A Strathdee⁴, Eric C Leas^{2

3}, Ramesh Rao³, Davey Smith⁴, John W Ayers^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Computer Science, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
² Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
³ Qualcomm Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.

PMID: 35767270
PMCID: PMC9244771 (available on 2023-06-29)
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.2998

Abstract

This cross-sectional study evaluates whether internet searches for abortion medications increased following the leak of a draft Supreme Court of the United States that would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.