Here you can find practice guidelines, clinical reports, interactive tools, and other resources designed for health care providers.

Abortion Access for Incarcerated Women: Are Correctional Health Practices in Conflict with Constitutional Standards? from Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Abortion in Indonesia from The Guttmacher Institute

Abortion and Mental Health from The Guttmacher Institute

Abortion Surveillance Report from The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Weekly Morbidity Report

Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress (PDF) from Guttmacher Institute

Access to Reproductive Health Care in New York State Jails from New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)

Acute Maternal HIV Infection During Pregnancy and Breast-feeding: Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission in Resource-Limited Settings from Medscape Today

Advance practice clinicians and abortion care from the Abortion Access Project

Advancing Scope of Practice for Advanced Practice Clinicians: More Than a Matter of Access from Contraception journal

After-abortion resources for health care providers from Exhale

All That's Old Is New Again: The Long Campaign To Persuade Women to Forego Abortion from the Guttmacher Policy Review

APA TASK FORCE FINDS SINGLE ABORTION NOT A THREAT TO WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH from APA online

The Assassination of Dr. Tiller: The Marginality of Abortion in American Culture and Medicine from Dissent online

Assessment of Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Services in Africa from Pathfinder International

Assessment of Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Services: A Global Tool for Assessing and Improving Postabortion Care for Youth from Pathfinder International

Cervical dilation before first-trimester surgical abortion (<14 weeks’ gestation), Clinical Guidelines from Society of Family Planning

Cervical preparation for surgical abortion from 20 to 24 weeks’ gestation, Clinical Guidelines from Society of Family Planning

Characteristics of U.S. Abortion Patients, 2008 from Guttmacher Institute

Clinic Emergency Scenarios from Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare

Defending Human Rights: Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment, a report from the Center for Reproductive Rights

Democrats and the New Politics on Abortion from NOW on PBS

Developments in Law on Induced Abortion: 1998-2007 from The Guttmacher Institute

Discussing recent study regarding miscarriage, abortion, premature births, and low birth weights with your patients

Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us by Carole Joffe

Early Abortion Training Workbook from Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare

Essential Elements of Postabortion Care: An Expanded and Updated Model from Postabortion Care Consortium

Estimates of Induced Abortion in Mexico: What’s Changed Between 1990 and 2006? from The Guttmacher Institute

Fact Sheet on Abortion Utilization, Financing and Access in the United States from the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation

Family Planning: A Key Component of Post Abortion Care (PDF) from USAID

FDA Approval and Oversight of the Drug Mifeprex from United States Government Accountability Office

Federal Financing of Abortion and Reproductive Health Services: A Side-by-Side Analysis of Current Law and Proposed Federal Legislation from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Fight Back! Responses to Harassment and Bullying of Abortion Clinic Staff from the Abortion Care Network

George Tiller Speaks Out on YouTube from the Abortion Care Network

Dr. George Tiller speaks on Reproductive Freedom on YouTube from the Feminist Majority

A Guide to Providing Abortion from Ipas

Later Abortion, a Web resource from Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health

State Data Center - Create Customized Tables, Graphs and Maps With the Most Current Data Available from the Guttmacher Institute

From The Guttmacher Institute

• Abortion Access for Incarcerated Women
• A Real-Time Look at the Impact of the Recession on Women’s Family Planning and Pregnancy Decisions
• The Impact of State Mandatory Counseling and Waiting Period Laws on Abortion: A Literature Review
• Meeting Women’s Contraceptive Needs in the Philippines
• State Policies in Brief: Parental Involvement in Minors’ Abortions
• The Obama administration’s recent actions on the global gag rule and UNFPA
• The rationale for increasing U.S. family planning assistance
• Restoring U.S. leadership in global sexual and reproductive health policy
• State Policies in Brief: Abortion Reporting Requirements
• State Policies in Brief: Bans on 'Partial-Birth' Abortion
• State Policies in Brief: Mandatory Counseling and Waiting Periods for Abortion
• State Policies in Brief: Protecting Access to Clinics
• State Policies in Brief: Restricting Insurance Coverage of Abortion
• State Policies in Brief: State Funding of Abortion Under Medicaid

From Ipas

• A: The abortion magazine
• Abortion attitude transformation: A values clarification toolkit for global audiences
• Access to abortion for reasons of mental health
• Addressing unsafe abortion: A commitment to saving women’s lives, second edition
• Advo.kit
• Making the Case for U.S. International Family Planning Assistance
• MVA Start-up Kit
• Saving women’s lives in refugee and other crisis situations: Manual vacuum aspiration
• Stocking facilities with MVA equipment according to caseload

How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America

I am Dr. Tiller, a living testimony to the courageous lives of abortion providers

Interview footage of Dr. George Tiller for Voices for Choices from Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH)

Lifetime Abortion Rate in Iran is Estimated to Be One Per Four Women from The Guttmacher Institute

From Marie Stopes International

• Abortion and Young Women: Issues of confidentiality
• "The condom broke!" Why do women in the UK have unintended pregnancies?
• "The condom broke!" Why do women in the UK have unintended pregnancies? Research brief
• Medical Abortion in India: A model for the rest of the world? Research and Analysis
• Medical Abortion in India: A model for the rest of the world? Research Brief
• For Women’s Lives and Health Report of the Global Safe Abortion Conference

Medicare’s Role for Women, fact sheet from Kaiser Family Foundation

Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for Sexual and Reproductive Health: Gaining Momentum and Promise, Contraception Editorial March 2010

From the National Abortion Federation

• 2009 Clinical Policy Guidelines
• The Abortion Option: a values clarification guide for health care providers
• Cultural competency
• Developing Cultural Competence in Reproductive Health Care: Understanding Every Woman
• Facts about Mifepristone (RU-486)
• Increasing Access to Abortion for Women in Diverse Communities
• Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights: The Indian Health Service and Its Inconsistent Application of the Hyde Amendment
• Medical abortion
• Quality assurance and improvement
• Surgical abortion resources

New Health Disparities Report: More Context for Higher Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Rates Among Women of Color from Kaiser Family Foundation

Nicaragua: Not even when her life is at stake: How the total abortion ban in Nicaragua criminalizes doctors and endangers women and girls, a report from Amnesty International

Nursing and abortion care from the Abortion Access Project

Perspectives: a matter of faith and conscience from Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

The Pregnancy Options Workbook from Pregnancy Options

Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians: Manual Vacuum Aspiration

From the Reproductive Health Technologies Project

• Abortion Technologies
• Mifepristone
• Misoprostol
• Methotrexate
• Manual Vacuum Aspiration

Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems from The World Health Organization (WHO)

Science Prevails: Abortion and Mental Health from Contraception journal

Second Trimester Abortion Initiative from Advancing New standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)

A Shifting Landscape: Parental Involvement Laws and Their Effect on Minors from The University of Chicago’s section of Family Planning and Contraceptive Research

Student organizing from Medical Students for Choice

Summary Report: Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Workshop from the National Cancer Institute

The Total Abortion Ban in Nicaragua: Women’s lives and health endangered, medical professionals criminalized, a report from Amnesty International

Trends in the Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions, 1974 to 2004 from The Guttmacher Institute

The Turnaway Study from Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health

Unwanted Pregnancies and Abortion: Issues of Social Justice for Women Living with HIV from CHANGE, FEIM, IAWC, Ipas, World AIDS Campaign, December 2009

What You Need to Know fact sheets: Access to Abortion Services

What You Need to Know fact sheets: The Difference Between Medical Abortion and Emergency Contraceptive Pills

What You Need to Know fact sheets: Mifepristone Safety Overview

Women’s Health and Health Care Reform from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

A Year In Review: 2009 Legislative Wrap Up from the Center for Reproductive Rights