In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory, Planned Parenthood reports that vasectomies have spiked by 1,200% and IUD implants have risen by 760%, while Wisp reports emergency contraception sales have increased by 1,000%.
The spike comes after numerous left-leaning public figures stoked fear Trump would ban abortion, something he doesn’t have the power to do and something he said he isn’t considering. However, the new Trump administration is considering cutting federal funding to the top abortion provider in the country.
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There has been debate about whether taxpayer money should be used to pay for abortions, or to fund progressive organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be leading the Trump administration’s efforts to cut back on wasteful spending via their Department of Government Efficiency, identified “$1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood” as targets for cutbacks.
Alexis McGill Johnson, CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, slammed the pair as “unqualified fanboys and agents of chaos.” She claimed they “intend to use their power” to deny people “care” and wreak havoc “on our public health system” in the name of government efficiency.
In addition to surgical, implant, and pill-based contraception surging as people who fear they will lose access to abortion, many on the Left have announced on social media they will be abstaining from sex altogether.
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To protest Trump’s reelection, many feminists have taken interest in the South Korean 4B movement, which pushes swearing off sex and marriage. In 2022, online feminists pushed a similar “sex strike” after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
“Young men expect sex, but they also want us to not be able to have access to abortion,” Michaela Thomas, a 21-year-old artist in Georgia, told the Washington Post regarding 4B. “They can’t have both. Young women don’t want to be intimate with men who don’t fight for women’s rights; it’s showing they don’t respect us.”