--- title: IUD Insertions Spiked After Trump's Election, Study Says description: In the 30 days after Donald Trump's 2016 election, the rate of women getting long-acting birth control like IUDs rose by almost 22%. canonical: https://time.com/5520212/iud-contraception-trump-election/ author: Jamie Ducharme article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-04T18:50:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:52:57.567Z article:section: Health og:title: IUD Insertions Spiked After Trump's Election, Study Says og:description: Long-acting contraceptive insertions rose by nearly 22% og:url: https://time.com/5520212/iud-contraception-trump-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfffc9dffd9430b02/69877df65f570f94ccb1521e/iud.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: IUD birthcontrol og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: IUD Insertions Spiked After Trump's Election, Study Says twitter:description: Long-acting contraceptive insertions rose by nearly 22% twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfffc9dffd9430b02/69877df65f570f94ccb1521e/iud.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # IUD Insertions Spiked After Trump's Election, Study Says > Sponsored content. 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Artifacts dating back to ancient times have shown that contraceptives have been used for thousands of years._  by [Jamie Ducharme](https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Feb 4, 2019 6:50 PM UTC  Intrauterine device --- Image by © Timothy Hogan/Corbis Intrauterine device --- Image by © Timothy Hogan/Corbis Photo Illustration by Mia Tramz for TIME; Corbis  by [Jamie Ducharme](https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Feb 4, 2019 6:50 PM UTC Demand for long-acting birth control rose by nearly 22% in the weeks after President Donald Trump’s election, according to a new [research letter](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2723071) published in _JAMA Internal Medicine._ In the days after Trump’s election in 2016, many women [urged peers on social media](http://time.com/4565558/iud-election-trump-birth-control/) to consider getting long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), like intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants. They cited fears about reproductive freedom under a president-elect who [had pledged support for anti-abortion policies](http://time.com/4574496/donald-trump-abortion/) and promised to [overturn the Affordable Care Act](http://time.com/money/4564243/trump-obamacare-repeal-outcome/). The new analysis suggests that those concerns may have contributed to a nearly 22% uptick in LARC insertions in the month after Trump’s election, compared to the same time period the year before. The analysis was based on data from more than 3 million commercially insured American women ages 18 to 45\. The researchers looked at how many women in this group had a LARC inserted in the 30 business days before and after Nov. 8, 2015, and during the same time period in 2016 — before and after Election Day. In 2015, LARC insertion rates were fairly steady before and after Nov. 8, going from 12.9 per 100,000 women each day to 13.7 per day. In 2016, however, the rate spiked by 21.6% after Nov. 8, going from 13.4 daily insertions per 100,000 women before the election to 16.3 per day after the election. That increase would translate to about 700 extra LARC insertions for each of the 30 business days after the election, when extrapolated to all 33 million U.S. women who were ages 18 to 45 and had employer-sponsored insurance at that time. Other analyses have also suggested that LARCs, particularly IUDs, became more popular after Trump’s election. [One analysis](http://time.com/4650764/iud-trump-election-increase/) found that the number of women visiting their doctors to discuss IUDs rose by 19% in the months following the election, and Planned Parenthood has said that [appointment requests for IUD insertions rose](http://time.com/4631381/cecile-richards-iud-planned-parenthood/) by 900% in the months after the election. In recent years, IUDs, which can prevent pregnancy for up to 12 years, have become [a more popular form of birth control](http://time.com/5482918/female-contraception-us/) than they used to be, following [ACA-related cost reductions](http://time.com/3948649/birth-control-affordable-care-act/) and increased education about their efficacy. Between 2011 and 2015, about 7% of American women ages 15 to 44 said they were using an IUD for contraception, [federal data shows](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key%5Fstatistics/c.htm#contraception). 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