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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

The Turnaway Study from Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health

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