--- title: IUD Requests Up 900 Percent at Planned Parenthood description: Find out why Planned Parenthood has seen an increase in IUD requests and donations since the 2016 presidential election according to Cecile Richards. canonical: https://time.com/4631381/cecile-richards-iud-planned-parenthood/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-11T17:27:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:21.231Z og:title: IUD Demand Is Up 900% at Planned Parenthood og:description: Since the election, women are nervous about their healthcare options og:url: https://time.com/4631381/cecile-richards-iud-planned-parenthood/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d5385224853ad4/6988b528ab6d7759c26ac706/cecile-richards-planned-parenthood1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Speaks At Planned Parenthood Action Fund Membership Event og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: IUD Demand Is Up 900% at Planned Parenthood twitter:description: Since the election, women are nervous about their healthcare options twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d5385224853ad4/6988b528ab6d7759c26ac706/cecile-richards-planned-parenthood1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # IUD Demand Is Up 900% at Planned Parenthood > Sponsored content. 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Jennifer Graylock—WireImage/Getty Images by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Jan 11, 2017 5:27 PM UTC As Trump prepares to take office, women prepare to have their [health care access challenged](http://motto.time.com/4618990/planned-parenthood-gloria-steinem-march/). Donations having been pouring into [Planned Parenthood](http://time.com/4570796/aclu-planned-parenthood-donation-increase-donald-trump/) — many [gifted in Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s name](http://motto.time.com/4618359/planned-parenthood-election-donations/) — and the organization has seen a [spike](http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/12/02/planned-parenthood-sees-surge-in-visits-following-trumps-election/) in appointment requests. Cecile Richards [told Christiane Amanpour](http://jezebel.com/planned-parenthoods-cecile-richards-says-demand-for-iud-1791025113) that this response has been “extraordinary.” “We’ve had a 900% increase in women trying to get into Planned Parenthood to get an IUD because they are desperately concerned that they are going to lose their access to health care,” Richards told Amanpour. “Women in this country are absolutely not going without a fight, and the majority is with us.” Richards also outlined the [fight against Planned Parenthood](http://motto.time.com/4626677/planned-parenthood-cecile-richards-donald-trump/) from her perspective, pointing out some of the organization’s impact. “We’ve been around 100 years, we’re the primary women’s health care provider in the United States of America,” she said. “As a result of the work we’ve done, we’re at [a 30-year low for unintended pregnancy in America](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/science/unplanned-pregnancies-hit-lowest-level-in-30-years.html). The crazy thing is about this new effort to end that access to family planning at Planned Parenthood, it is the very thing that is reducing unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion in the United States.” Richards also said the quest to de-fund Planned Parenthood has become too political: “It’s really a problem when politicians put their politics ahead of women’s health care in America. This is not what voters voted for. This is not even what Trump voters voted for.” \[h/t [Jezebel](http://jezebel.com/planned-parenthoods-cecile-richards-says-demand-for-iud-1791025113)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4631381/cecile-richards-iud-planned-parenthood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4631381/cecile-richards-iud-planned-parenthood/"},"headline":"IUD Demand Is Up 900% at Planned Parenthood","datePublished":"2017-01-11T17:27:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:21.231Z","description":"Since the election, women are nervous about their healthcare options","url":"https://time.com/4631381/cecile-richards-iud-planned-parenthood/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d5385224853ad4/6988b528ab6d7759c26ac706/cecile-richards-planned-parenthood1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d5385224853ad4/6988b528ab6d7759c26ac706/cecile-richards-planned-parenthood1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton Speaks At Planned Parenthood Action Fund Membership Event","caption":"President and CEO Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards onstage at the 2016 Planned Parenthood Action Fund Membership Event held during the Planned Parenthood National Convention at Washington Hilton on June 10, 2016 in Washington, DC.","creditText":"Jennifer Graylock—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4631381/cecile-richards-iud-planned-parenthood/","name":"IUD Demand Is Up 900% at Planned Parenthood"}}]}] ```