Abortion policy and practice should be person-centered and informed by science. 

Abortion is Essential Healthcare is a tool for the community that gathers timely and relevant evidence regarding the safety of abortion care, the detrimental effects of denying a pregnant person an abortion, the inequities of access to abortion care in the US, and the effect this has on those whose access has been constrained by systems of oppression. We celebrate the clinicians, scholars, and advocates who are showing up every day to advance just and equitable abortion care informed by science.

Explore how research, clinical practice, and community come together to support abortion as essential healthcare:

• Download our Abortion in Essential Healthcare Fact Sheet
• Use Clinical Guidance resources to provide clinical care according to the best available evidence
• Read the latest research on abortion
• Explore the Society’s Learning Communities and how these time-limited structured networking groups strengthen research underway and generate opportunities for collaboration
• Advocate for policy and practices that center the people most impacted by abortion bans and restrictions
• Use Society Education’s tools and courses to implement clinical guidance into practice and become an institutional change agent
• Share “A safe abortion that works for you,” a video resource for people seeking care

Get involved

• Become a member of the Society, or renew your membership.
• Donate to support evidence-informed, person-centered abortion and contraception care.
• Connect, collaborate, and inspire one another virtually on Society Connect and by joining us in person at the Annual Meeting