Links to sites with information on medication abortion

The Abortion Access Project
www.abortionaccess.org
AAP is an organization of reproductive rights activists and women's health care providers dedicated to making abortion truly accessible. AAP works in the US on the state and national levels to increase accessible abortion services, increase the number of abortion providers, improve the education of health professional students, and educate the public to see abortion as part of comprehensive reproductive health care. AAP has developed models of activism and training that can be used in other regions across the country. This website provides training materials for providers and students as well as information about medication abortion methods. (English)

Abortion Clinic Directory
www.abortionclinicdirectory.com
This website provides contact information for US abortion clinics plus medically accurate information about abortion, including aspiration (surgical) abortion and medication abortion. (English)

Abortion Clinics OnLine
www.gynpages.com
Abortion Clinics OnLine (ACOL) is a directory service comprised of websites of over 400 providers of abortion services and other reproductive healthcare services. They may be private physician's offices, state licensed clinics, private clinics, or hospital abortion services. The list of Abortion clinics includes sites in 40 US states, Canada, and a number of other countries worldwide. (English and Spanish)

The Abortion Conversation Project
www.abortionconversation.com
The Abortion Conversation Project is committed to eliminating the stigma of abortion by creating new ways and opportunities to talk about abortion honestly and publicly. The real life experiences of providers and women themselves will enable people to understand and appreciate the complex moral decision making surrounding a pregnancy decision. (English)

The Alan Guttmacher Institute
www.agi-usa.org
This site provides numerous studies on abortion in the US and worldwide. (English and Spanish)

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
www.acog.org
With over 49,000 members, ACOG represents the leading group of professionals providing health care for women in the US. This website provides information regarding women’s health, including practice guidelines, patient education materials, and policy updates. (English and Spanish)

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
www.arhp.org
The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) is a non-profit membership association comprised of highly qualified and committed experts in reproductive health. ARHP activities include the development and implementation of clinical conferences, visiting faculty programs, monographs, an international peer-reviewed journal, Contraception, and on-line education. This website is designed for health care providers, policy makers, the media and the public and provides information on medication abortion and reproductive health. This site offers an abortion resource center, including patient information, clinical information, and health provider training materials. (English)

British Pregnancy Advisory Services
www.bpas.org
The largest abortion providers in Britain, the bpas website provides information on medication abortion, aspiration abortion and emergency contraception. Contact information to make an appointment at a bpas clinic is also provided. (English)

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC)
www.catholicsforchoice.org
Working in the Catholic social justice tradition, Catholics for a Free Choice does research, policy analysis, education and advocacy on issues of gender equality and reproductive health worldwide. The website includes information about CFFC as well as links to publications and reports. (English, Spanish, Portuguese)

Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy
http://reprohealth.ucsf.edu
The Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy is dedicated to promoting reproductive health, family planning and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, worldwide through research, training and policy analysis. Information on research dedicated to abortion and post-abortion care, links to publications, and training materials are provided on the website. (English)

Center for Reproductive Rights
www.crlp.org
The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect and fulfill. This website provides information on legal issues surrounding abortion, reproductive health, and women’s rights worldwide. (English, Spanish, French, Arabic)

Choice USA
www.choiceusa.org
Choice USA mobilizes and provides ongoing support to the diverse, upcoming generation of leaders who promote and protect reproductive choice both now and in the future. This website provides information about medication abortion, aspiration abortion, contraception, adolescent rights and health, and access to reproductive health services. (English)

Concentric Media
www.concentric.org
Concentric Media has produced a number of films on reproductive rights and abortion, in both English and Spanish. The award winning film trilogy, From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond, is available from the site, as are discussion guides and resource action kits. (English, Spanish)

Education for Choice
www.efc.org.uk/Home
Education for Choice is dedicated to enabling young people to make informed decisions about pregnancy and abortion. This website provides youth-friendly information about abortion, as well as information for parents and professional. Training materials for health service professionals are also available. (English)

Exhale
www.4exhale.org
Exhale creates a social climate where each person’s unique experience with abortion is supported, respected and free from stigma. Exhale provides services, training and education to empower individuals, families and communities to achieve post-abortion health and well-being. Exhale staffs a multi-lingual US national talkline and the website provides publications and educational resources regarding after abortion care. (English)

Family Care International
www.familycareintl.org
FCI seeks to ensure that women and adolescents have access to the high-quality information and services they need to improve their sexual and reproductive health, experience safe pregnancy and childbirth, and avoid unwanted pregnancy and HIV infection. FCI also works to decrease unintended pregnancy, increase access to safe abortion services and increase access to quality post abortion care worldwide. The website provides resources for increasing safe abortion services, as well as community education materials. (English, Spanish, French)

Feminist Majority Foundation
www.feminist.org
FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. The site provides links for abortion rights resources, including medication abortion, and contains information regarding the Compassionate Use Program, a campaign to expand access to mifepristone for non-abortion clinical care.

Feminist Women’s Health Center
www.fwhc.org
FWHC is a nonprofit organization that promotes and protects a woman's right to choose and receive reproductive health care. This website provides general information about abortion including cost, procedure, laws, and clinic locations. (English, Spanish)

Fundación ESAR
http://www.fundacionesar.org/
ESAR is a non-profit foundation based in Colombia with the purpose of promoting sexual and reproductive health and of preventing the adverse effects of unsafe abortion in Latin America, primarily through training and certifying health workers. (English, Spanish)

The Guttmacher Institute
www.guttmacher.org
The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. The Guttmacher Institute publishes Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, International Family Planning Perspectives, The Guttmacher Policy Review and special reports on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights. This website provides a database of articles and fact sheets on abortion in the US and worldwide. (English and Spanish)

Gynuity Health Projects
www.gynuity.org/
Gynuity Health Projects is a research and technical assistance organization dedicated to the idea that all people should have access to the fruits of medical science and technology development. This website provides information on medication abortion, including misoprostol-only use. Educational and training materials are available in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian. (English, Spanish, Portuguese)

Ibis Reproductive Health
www.ibisreproductivehealth.org
Ibis Reproductive Health aims to improve women’s reproductive autonomy, choices, and ‎health worldwide. The website provides information contains a database of articles ‎published by staff and links to educational and training materials dedicated to medication ‎abortion, including materials in English and Arabic. (English)‎

International Planned Parenthood Federation
www.ippf.com
IPPF’s work is grounded in the belief that access to quality, sexual and reproductive health ‎information and services is a basic human right. By making these services available, IPPF ‎helps to empower individuals to make decisions about their fertility and thus contributes to ‎improving health and well being, national development and environmental quality. The ‎IPPF websites have information, educational materials, and publications related to abortion ‎and reproductive health. IPPF has six regional divisions, including:

Africa Region: www.ippfar.org (English)‎
Arab World Region: www.ippfawr.org (English)‎
East and Southeast Asia and Oceania: www.ippfeseaor.org (English)‎
European Network: www.ippfen.org (English)‎
South Asia Region: www.ippfsar.org (English)‎
Western Hemisphere Region: www.ippfwhr.org (English, Spanish)‎

International Women's Health Coalition
www.iwhc.org/‎
IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that ‎promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in ‎Africa, Asia, Latin America. IWHC is committed to adolescent health and rights, sexual ‎rights, and access to safe abortion. This website has information on country programs, ‎global activism and international policy, and women's health issues. (English)‎

Ipas
www.ipas.org
Ipas has worked for three decades to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and ‎reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion. Ipas ‎manufactures and distributes manual vacuum aspiration equipment and trains providers in ‎early abortion techniques worldwide. The website also provides information for health ‎service providers, policy makers, and the public on four abortion procedures—vacuum ‎aspiration, medication, sharp curettage, and dilation and evacuation. Educational and ‎training materials and publications are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. ‎‎(English, Spanish, Portuguese)‎

In conjunction with the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce and SisterSong, Ipas recently ‎launched Mapping Our Rights (www.ipas.org/mapping/final_map.asp), an interactive website dedicated to sexual and reproductive laws and policies in the US. ‎‎(English)‎

Law Students for Choice
www.lawstudentsforchoice.org/‎
Law Students for Choice is committed to educating, organizing, and supporting pro-choice ‎law students in the US to ensure that a new generation of lawyers will be prepared to ‎successfully defend and expand reproductive rights in the US and around the world. ‎‎(English)‎

Marie Stopes International
www.mariestopes.org.uk/index.shtml
The Marie Stopes International is committed to reducing maternal mortality due to unsafe ‎abortion or termination through improved access to reproductive health services to prevent ‎unwanted pregnancy, advocacy initiatives to stress the importance of safe, legal abortion and ‎the provision of quality abortion services in countries where the procedure is legal, including ‎post-abortion care, training in manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) and post-abortion family ‎planning. The website provides information about their programs, both clinical and research, ‎in the UK and worldwide.‎

Medical Abortion Education Project
www.arhp.org/healthcareproviders/visitingfacultyprograms/maep/index.cfm?ID=25‎‎6‎
A collaborative project between the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals and ‎the National Abortion Federation, the Medical Abortion Education Project (MAEP) was ‎designed to meet the challenge of ensuring the availability of medication abortion by ‎increasing the number of US healthcare providers who advocate medication abortion ‎training and service delivery within their communities. The website provides information ‎and resources about the program and an online request for MAEP sessions. (English)‎

Medical Students For Choice
www.ms4c.org
MSFC is a bi-national grassroots organization dedicated to improving abortion training in ‎medical schools and residency programs. This site provides information on the availability ‎and quality of abortion training in residency programs throughout the US and Canada.‎

Mifeprex-Early Option Pill
www.earlyoptionpill.com/‎
This websites provides current information about Mifeprex (mifepristone) for both ‎providers and patients. (English and Spanish)‎

Misoprostol in Obstetrics and Gynecology
www.misoprostol.org/‎
This site provides information about the obstetric and gynecological uses of misoprostol, ‎including dosing regimens. (English and German)‎

NARAL Pro-Choice America‎
www.prochoiceamerica.org/issues/abortion/‎
NARAL is a U.S.-based advocacy organization. The website provides advocacy tools ‎including legislator voting records on choice issues and information about laws related to ‎women's reproductive health. NARAL’s website also provides information on the history of ‎mifepristone and its impact on abortion politics and research. (English)‎

National Abortion Federation
www.prochoice.org
National Abortion Federation (NAF) is an association of abortion providers in the US and ‎Canada. The website provides information and resources for health service providers, ‎researchers, and counselors. (English, Spanish)‎
www.earlyoptions.org
This site provides medication abortion educational materials for both providers and patients. ‎‎(English and Spanish) This site also offers a CME/CE accredited online program designed ‎to offer health care professionals comprehensive information about the safe and effective ‎administration of medication abortion. The program offers five modules focusing on the ‎topics of medication abortion regimens, management of side effects and complications, ‎counseling, ultrasound, and service delivery issues. Each module has specific learning ‎objectives and includes interactive questions, graphics, and video clips featuring expert ‎medication abortion providers and women who have chosen medication abortion. Click on ‎the link to‎ educational resources and then on the "Online CME/CE" logo to start the program. (English, Spanish)

National Coalition of Abortion Providers
www.ncap.com/‎
NCAP represents the political, business and networking needs of independent abortion ‎providers who serve almost 1 million women each year. This website provides information ‎about abortion procedures, abortion counseling, and post-abortion care for both providers ‎and women considering the option of abortion. (English)‎

National Organization for Women (NOW)
www.now.org/issues/abortion
NOW is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. This website ‎includes an abortion rights and reproductive issues page, which provides information about ‎abortion and reproductive health laws and policies at the state and national levels. (English)‎

Not-2-late.com: The Emergency Contraception Website
www.not-2-late.com
Developed by the Office of Population Research, Princeton University and the Association ‎of Reproductive Health Professionals, this website provides medically accurate, up to date ‎information about emergency contraception (sometimes known as “the morning after pill”). ‎The website provides a database, searchable by country, of oral contraceptive pills that can ‎be used for emergency contraception and provides information about the different between ‎medication abortion and emergency contraception. (English, Spanish, French)‎
http://ec.princeton.edu/Arabic/‎ was developed by OPR and Ibis Reproductive ‎Health and is available in Arabic. (Arabic)‎

Pacific Institute for Women’s Health
www.piwh.org/
The mission of the Pacific Institute for Women's Health is to increase the ability of ‎women and young people to make informed decisions about and control their sexuality ‎and reproduction. This website contains information on unsafe abortion in Kenya, ‎community based abortion care (COBAC) and medication abortion in general.‎ (English)

Pathfinder International
www.pathfind.org
Pathfinder International works to improve the reproductive health of women, men and ‎adolescents throughout the developing world. This website provides information about ‎Pathfinder’s projects and publications as well as training resources dedicated to incomplete ‎abortion and postabortion care. (English)‎

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
www.prch.org/‎
PRCH works to educate physicians, the media, policymakers, and the public about abortion ‎and contraception in the United States. The website provides educational and training ‎materials dedicated to abortion and reproductive health. (English)‎

Planned Parenthood Federation of America
www.plannedparenthood.org
The official site for Planned Parenthood, this website provides information and resources on medication and aspiration abortion, including a clinic directory. (English and Spanish)

Population Council
www.popcouncil.org
The Population Council is an international, nonprofit institution that conducts research on ‎three fronts: biomedical, social science, and public health, ultimately seeking to affect ‎thinking about reproductive health and population growth. The Population Council provides ‎information on reproductive health issues worldwide, including publications on medication ‎abortion methods and acceptability among diverse populations. (English, French, Spanish, ‎Arabic)‎

Postabortion Care Consortium
www.pac-consortium.org/‎
The Postabortion Care (PAC) Consortium works to inform the reproductive health ‎community about health concerns related to unsafe abortion and to promote postabortion ‎care as an effective strategy for addressing this global problem. The website includes an ‎extensive list of postabortion care resources, news about the Consortium, and information ‎about the Consortium's working groups. (English)‎

Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP)
www.rhtp.org
The mission of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP) is to advance the ‎ability of every woman to achieve full reproductive freedom with access to the safest, most ‎effective and preferred methods for controlling her fertility and protecting her health. The ‎website provides information on early pregnancy termination. (English)‎

RHEDI: The Center for Reproductive Health Education in Family Medicine
www.rhedi.org
RHEDI supports the integration of high-quality comprehensive abortion and family ‎planning training into U.S. family medicine residency programs. The Center provides ‎funding and expertise to family medicine residency programs to establish required rotations ‎in abortion and family planning. (English)‎

RH Reality Check – Information and analysis for reproductive health‎
www.rhrealitycheck.org/‎
RH Reality Check is an online community and publication serving individuals and ‎organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.‎ RH Reality Check is guided by the issues and recommendations identified in the Program of ‎Action agreed on at the International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo ‎in 1994. RH Reality Check exists as a resource for evidence-based information, provocative ‎commentary, and interactive dialogue. (English)‎

Women’s Law Project
www.womenslawproject.org/‎
The Women’s Law Project seeks to advance the status of women’s reproductive rights. The ‎website includes case publications concerning abortive rights in the US. (English‎)

Women on Waves
www.womenonwaves.org/set-1020.37-en.html
Women on Waves is a non-profit organization concerned with women's human rights. Its ‎mission is to prevent unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortions throughout the world. This ‎website provides information about the organization as well as resources for providers and ‎the public. (Dutch, English, Portuguese, Polish, French, Spanish)‎

Women on Web
www.womenonweb.org/‎
Women on Web is supported by a loose and growing network of independent organizations ‎and individuals that have no legal affiliation. This website provides women information on ‎how to perform an abortion themselves if they do not live in a country that provides safe, ‎legal abortions. On the I need an abortion part of this site women in need of abortions can find more information on how to obtain a medication abortion, even in legally restrictive settings. On the I had an abortion part of this site, people can download their portraits and share their stories to break the taboo surrounding abortion. (Dutch, English, Portuguese, Polish, French, Spanish)