Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Ask Dr. Drew
Episode: Abortion Pills Break Google Search Records: Dr. John W. Ayers & Dr. Rebecca Heiss on the Aftermath of SCOTUS Roe V. Wade Ruling
Description: Dr. Rebecca Heiss & Dr. John W. Ayers join Ask Dr. Drew LIVE to discuss a new study on the effects of the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision and access to abortion pills – specifically a record-shattering increase in Google search trends for mifepristone / mifeprex and misoprostol / cytotec. Dr. John W. Ayers is a Johns Hopkins and Harvard trained computational epidemiologist who uses big data to yield rapid and novel insights with measurable public health impacts – for example, the discovery of seasonal patterns across mental illnesses, and forecasting algorithms for infectious diseases. Dr. Ayers will reveal the results of a ne...