show only:
Media kits
An Overview of Abortion in the United States January 2008
Fact sheets
Facts on Induced Abortion in Mexico [PDF] October 2008
Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States [PDF version] January 2008
State Facts About Abortion January 2008
Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide [PDF version] October 2007
Facts on Unwanted Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Nigeria [PDF] June 2006
In the Know: Questions About Pregnancy, Contraception and Abortion May 2006
"State Policies in Brief"
'Choose Life' License Plates [PDF] October 2008
Abortion Policy in the Absence of Roe [PDF] October 2008
Abortion Reporting Requirements [PDF] October 2008
An Overview of Abortion Laws [PDF] October 2008
Bans on 'Partial-Birth' Abortion [PDF] October 2008
Mandatory Counseling and Waiting Periods for Abortion [PDF] October 2008
Parental Involvement in Minors' Abortions [PDF] October 2008
Policies on Later-Term Abortion [PDF] October 2008
Protecting Access to Clinics [PDF] October 2008
Refusing to Provide Health Services [PDF] October 2008
Requirements for Ultrasound [PDF] October 2008
Restricting Insurance Coverage of Abortions [PDF] October 2008
State Funding of Abortion Under Medicaid [PDF] October 2008
Highlighted policy articles
Abortion and Women of Color: The Bigger Picture [PDF version] August 2008
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
New Data on Abortion Incidence, Safety Illuminate Key Aspects of Worldwide Abortion Debate [PDF version] November 2007
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
State Abortion Counseling Policies and the Fundamental Principles of Informed Consent [PDF version] November 2007
Rachel Benson Gold and Elizabeth Nash
Guttmacher Policy Review
Repeat Abortion, Repeat Unintended Pregnancy, Repeated and Misguided Government Policies [PDF version] May 2007
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
The Heart of the Matter: Public Funding of Abortion for Poor Women in the United States [PDF version] March 2007
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review
Misinformed Consent: The Medical Accuracy of State-Developed Abortion Counseling Materials [PDF version] October 2006
Chinué Turner Richardson and Elizabeth Nash
Guttmacher Policy Review
Abortion and Mental Health: Myths and Realities [PDF version] August 2006
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
Rekindling Efforts to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy: A Matter of 'Equity and Common Sense' [PDF version] August 2006
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review
Roe or No Roe, Right to Abortion Seen Eroding Under Newly Constituted Supreme Court March 2006
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
Toward Making Abortion 'Rare': The Shifting Battleground over the Means to an End [PDF version] March 2006
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
Promoting Prevention to Reduce the Need for Abortion: Good Policy, Good Politics [PDF version] May 2005
Cynthia Dailard
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past be Prologue? [PDF version] March 2003
Rachel Benson Gold
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Mifepristone in the United States: Status and Future [PDF version] August 2002
Heather Boonstra
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Global Gag Rule: Exporting Antiabortion Ideology at the Expense of American Values [PDF version] June 2001
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
A Message to the President: Abortion Can Be Safe, Legal and Still Rare [PDF version] February 2001
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Minors and the Right to Consent to Health Care [PDF version] August 2000
Heather Boonstra and Elizabeth Nash
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Rights Without Access: Revisiting Public Funding of Abortion for Poor Women [PDF version] April 2000
Heather Boonstra and Adam Sonfield
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Late-Term Abortions: Legal Considerations [PDF version] January 1997
Issues in Brief
The Limitations of U.S. Statistics on Abortion [PDF version] January 1997
Issues in Brief
An Overview of Clandestine Abortion in Latin America [PDF version] December 1996
Deirdre Wulf
Issues in Brief
"In Brief"
Interpreting Research Studies [PDF] July 2006
Reducing Unintended Pregnancy in Nigeria [PDF] September 2005
Reducing Unintended Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion in Uganda [PDF] March 2005
Improving Reproductive Health in the Philippines [PDF] May 2003
Abortion in Context: United States and Worldwide [PDF version] May 1999
Cynthia Dailard
Late-Term Abortions: Legal Considerations [PDF version] January 1997
The Limitations of U.S. Statistics on Abortion [PDF version] January 1997
An Overview of Clandestine Abortion in Latin America [PDF version] December 1996
Deirdre Wulf
Highlighted research articles
Estimates of Induced Abortion in Mexico: What's Changed Between 1990 and 2006 [PDF]
Fatima Juarez, Susheela Singh, Sandra G. Garcia and Claudia Diaz Olavarrieta
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2008
Severity and Cost of Unsafe Abortion Complications Treated in Nigerian Hospitals [PDF version]
Stanley K. Henshaw, Isaac Adewole, Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole, Boniface Oye-Adeniran and Rubina Hussain
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 34, Issue 1, March 2008
Abortion in the United States: Incidence and Access to Services, 2005 [PDF]
Rachel K. Jones, Mia R. S. Zolna, Stanley K. Henshaw and Lawrence B. Finer
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2008
Legal Abortion Worldwide: Incidence and Recent Trends [PDF version]
Gilda Sedgh, Stanley K.Henshaw, Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole and Joanna Drescher
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2007
The High Cost of Unsafe Abortion [PDF]
Susheela Singh and Iqbal H. Shah
id21 health focus, August 2007
Timing of Steps and Reasons for Delays in Obtaining Abortions in the United States [PDF]
Lawrence B. Finer, Lori F. Frohwirth, Lindsay A. Dauphinee, Susheela Singh, and Ann M. Moore
Contraception, Volume 74, Issue 4, October 2006
Induced Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in Guatemala
Susheela Singh, Elena Prada and Edgar Kestler
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 32, Issue 3, September 2006
Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001 [PDF version]
Lawrence B. Finer and Stanley K. Henshaw
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2006
The Incidence of Induced Abortion in Uganda [PDF version]
Susheela Singh, Elena Prada, Florence Mirembe and Charles Kiggundu
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2005
Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives [PDF version]
Lawrence B. Finer, Lori F. Frohwirth, Lindsay A. Dauphinee, Susheela Singh and Ann M. Moore
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2005
The Incidence of Induced Abortion in the Philippines: Current Level and Recent Trends [PDF version]
Fatima Juarez, Josefina Cabigon, Susheela Singh and Rubina Hussain
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2005
Abortion Incidence and Services in the United States [PDF version]
Lawrence B. Finer and Stanley K. Henshaw
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 35, Issue 1, January/February 2003
The Accessibility of Abortion Services in the United States, 2001 [PDF version]
Lawrence B. Finer and Stanley K. Henshaw
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 35, Issue 1, January/February 2003
Contraceptive Use Among U.S. Women Having Abortions in 2000-2001 [PDF version]
Rachel K. Jones, Jacqueline E. Darroch and Stanley K. Henshaw
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 34, Issue 6, November/December 2002
Patterns in the Socioeconomic Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions in 2000-2001 [PDF version]
Rachel K. Jones, Jacqueline E. Darroch and Stanley K. Henshaw
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 34, Issue 5, September/October 2002
Mifepristone for Early Medical Abortion: Experiences in France, Great Britain and Sweden [PDF version]
Rachel K. Jones and Stanley K. Henshaw
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 34, Issue 3, May/June 2002
Abortion Training in U.S. Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Programs, 1998 [PDF version]
Rene Almeling, Laureen Tews and Susan Dudley
Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 32, Issue 6, November/December 2000
Teenage Abortion and Pregnancy Statistics by State, 1996 [PDF version]
Stanley K. Henshaw and Dina J. Feivelson
Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 32, Issue 6, November/December 2000
Unintended Pregnancy in the United States [PDF version]
Stanley K. Henshaw
Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 30, Issue 1, January/February 1998
The Impact of Requirements for Parental Consent [PDF]
Stanley K. Henshaw
Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 27, Issue 3, May/June 1995
Reports
Trends in the Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions, 1974-2004 [PDF] September 2008
Stanley K. Henshaw and Kathryn Kost
Abortion Morbidity in Uganda: Evidence from Two Communities [PDF] December 2006
Gabriel Jagwe-Wadda, Ann M. Moore, Vanessa Woog
Embarazo no planeado y aborto inseguro en Guatemala: Causas y Consecuencias [PDF] December 2006
Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Uganda: Causes and Consequences [PDF] November 2006
Susheela Singh, Ann M. Moore, Akinrinola Bankole, Florence Mirembe, Deirdre Wulf and Elena Prada
Repeat Abortion in the United States [PDF] November 2006
Rachel K. Jones, Susheela Singh, Lawrence B. Finer and Lori F. Frohwirth
Morbilidad por aborto en Guatemala: Una visión de la comunidad [PDF] November 2006
Sandra Sáenz de Tejada, Elena Prada y Gonzalo Ball
Estimating the Impact of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility for Family Planning Services [PDF] August 2006
Jennifer J. Frost, Adam Sonfield and Rachel Benson Gold
Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in the Philippines: Causes and Consequences [PDF] August 2006
Susheela Singh, Fatima Juarez, Josefina Cabigon, Haley Ball, Rubina Hussain and Jennifer Nadeau
Unwanted Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Nigeria: Causes and Consequences [PDF] August 2006
Akinrinola Bankole, Boniface A. Oye-Adeniran, Susheela Singh, Isaac F. Adewole, Deirdre Wulf, Gilda Sedgh and Rubina Hussain
Abortion in Women's Lives [PDF] May 2006
Preventing Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences: Priorities for Research and Action [PDF] March 2006
Abortion and Postabortion Care in Guatemala: A Report from Health Care Professionals and Health Facilities [PDF] December 2005
Elena Prada, Edgar Kestler, Caroline Sten, Lindsay Dauphinee, and Lilian Ramírez
Abortion and Postabortion Care in Uganda: A Report from Health Care Professionals and Health Facilities [PDF] May 2005
Elena Prada, Florence Mirembe, Fatima H. Ahmed, Rose Nalwadda and Charles Kiggundu
Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion: Public Challenges in Latin America and The Caribbean [PDF] November 2001
Sharing Responsibility: Women Society and Abortion Worldwide [PDF] June 1999
Statistics
Trends in the Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions, 1974-2004 (with supplementary tables) [PDF] September 2008
Stanley K. Henshaw and Kathryn Kost
Public Funding for Contraceptive, Sterilization and Abortion Services, FY 1980-2006 January 2008
Estimates of U.S. Abortion Incidence, 2001-2003 [PDF] August 2006
Lawrence B. Finer and Stanley K. Henshaw
Slide shows
An Overview of Abortion in the United States January 2008
State-by-State Trends in Abortion in the United States January 2008
Trends in Abortion in the United States, 1973-2005 January 2008
Abortion: Worldwide Levels and Trends October 2007
RSS