STUDIES AND INSIGHTS
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Learn more about evidence-based studies and insights from leaders in the field that highlight the importance of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care education and training.
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Help Protect Access to Prenatal, Birth, and Postpartum Care in an Era of Immigration Enforcement
National Association of Certified Professional Midwives: Comprehensive Guidance for Community-Based Midwifery Practices
The purpose of this guidance is to support community midwives and midwifery practices in protecting access to prenatal, birth, and postpartum care at a time when fear of immigration enforcement can deter individuals from seeking timely healthcare.
Abortion Training Workbook
TEACH / UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health 2022
This all-inclusive interactive curriculum includes tools to train new reproductive health providers to competence. This most recent version “has improved interactivity with options to use it as a Printable PDF and online with chapter navigation, links to original references, and click-to-enlarge images, as well as extensive new and updated evidence."
Abortion Policies in U.S. Teaching Hospitals
Journal: Obstetrics & Gynecology, June 2020
Reveals how restrictive abortion policies in teaching hospitals — especially in the Midwest — create barriers to clinical training and reinforce abortion stigma among medical trainees and staff.
An Examination of Local Policies Impacting Access to Reproductive Health
Read the latest Local Reproductive Freedom Index October 2019
Cities, counties, and other localities have a unique opportunity to mitigate a hostile climate created by the federal and state governments and to innovate in ways that advance reproductive freedom.
Resources for Clinicians Who Want to Moonlight as Abortion Providers
National Women’s Law Project March 2019
Many new clinicians believe that they don’t have power to negotiate employment contracts, especially when employers claim that the contract is boilerplate.
Data and Statistics
Abortion Surveillance Data 2018
Since 1969, CDC has conducted abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions in the United States. Their last report was published in 2018.
An Abortion Provider Toolkit
A collaborative project between the Abortion Access Project, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health Care at UCSF, and the National Abortion Federation (NAF), 2018
A professional guide for NPs, midwives, and PAs in the United States who are either currently providing or would like to offer abortion care. The Toolkit helps clinicians compile evidence to support the integration of early abortion care as an essential part of patients’ health care services.