Trending Issues

Refer to these policy briefs, fact sheets, and templates.

Abortion Bans

• Issue Brief: Personhood Measures
• Issue Brief: Training and Workforce after Dobbs: How abortion bans harm obstetric and gynecologic education and careers and what educators, institutions, and legislators can do to help
• Six-week abortion bans: Talking points and resources
• 15-week abortion bans: Opposition letter
• Opposition to criminalizing abortion care and referrals: Sample testimony
• Abortion procedure bans: ACOG Statement
• Issue Brief: Access to Mifepristone and Misoprostol in the Clinical Setting

Medication Abortion

• Facts are Important: Medication Abortion "Reversal" Is Not Supported by Science
• Understanding the Practical Implications of the FDA’s December 2021 Mifepristone REMS Decision: Q&A

Protecting Abortion Access

• Issue Brief: Access to Care During Obstetric Emergencies
• Violence Against Providers of Abortion Care and Clinics
• Crisis Pregnancy Center Information and Resources
• ACOG's Reproductive Health Policy Priorities and Recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services
• State policy recommendations to protect, strengthen, and expand abortion services: Report from the California Future of Abortion Council
• Resolution opposing the criminalization of medicine: South Carolina State Medical Association resolution
• Department of Justice Resource for Protecting Reproductive Care

Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers

• Issue Brief: Advanced Practice Clinicians and Abortion Care Provision 
• Hospital Admitting Privilege Mandates Undermine Physician Practice and Unduly Burden Women's Access to Abortion
• June Medical Services v. Russo: Overview of the US Supreme Court ruling

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