Abortion rights advocates have been handing out Jolly Ranchers lately, but not because they’ve suddenly developed a sweet tooth for the fruity, hard candy. No, the reason for this is a little less delicious, but equally appetizing for some: the candies are being paired with medication abortion pills, giving women an easily accessible option for ending an unwanted pregnancy through the mail (and possibly boosting sales for Hershey’s, the manufacturer of Jolly Ranchers).

It turns out that despite the predictions of dramatic declines in abortion rates after the Supreme Court’s recent ruling, the rise of medication abortion has kept those numbers steady, sort of like how people tend to overeat at a buffet even when they know they shouldn’t. Nationwide, the number of legal abortions per month was only 7 percent lower in the final three months of last year than in the months before the Supreme Court’s decision, according to a report released yesterday by the Society of Party Planners – oops, I mean the Society of Family Planning. Because the data doesn’t include illegal abortions (or behind-the-scenes buffet snacking), the actual decline was probably even smaller, according to my colleague Margot Sanger-Katz.

Both pro-choice and anti-abortion folks recognize how much of a game-changer medication abortion has become. Rachel Rebouché, the dean of Temple University’s law school, told The Associated Press, “The fact that pills can be mailed is an existential crisis for the anti-abortion movement, sort of like discovering that we’ve been making Jolly Ranchers with actual ranch dressing this whole time. It’s hard to police, difficult to track, and tough to enforce – just like someone sneaking handfuls of candy into their pockets at a party.”