Advanced practice clinicians (APCs), including nurse practitioners, midwives, and physician associates, play an important but often unrecognized role in the provision of clinician-provided abortion care in the United States. The most recent quantitative national data on the volume of abortion care provided by APCs is from 2014, which indicate that APCs provided at least some ...Read more >

While midwives are authorized to provide abortion care in 24 states and DC, their role in abortion provision remains largely invisible or underrepresented in national surveillance efforts. Abortion care provided by midwives, who were among the first abortion providers in this country, has been firmly established as safe, effective, and acceptable. To ensure accurate surveillance ...Read more >

Abortion surveillance in the U.S. has historically focused on facilities rather than the clinicians who provide care. In the wake of the Dobbs decision and the rapidly shifting abortion landscape, understanding who delivers abortion care is essential for training, supporting, and sustaining this critical workforce where abortion remains legal. This secondary data analysis will use ...Read more >

The need for well-trained abortion providers is greater than ever for all and dire for the most marginalized communities whose health outcomes worsen as abortion access further dwindles. Patients from such communities have better health outcomes when clinicians reflect them demographically. These clinicians, most often those underrepresented in medicine (URiM), BIPOC, and/or those in primary ...Read more >

Access to abortion depends in large part on the workforce of clinicians who provide it, but there is significant variation in this workforce. The Dobbs v Jackson decision in June 2022 resulted in massive changes in the ability to provide abortion care, and updated data is critical to our understanding of abortion access. This study ...Read more >