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Off Base: The U.S. Military's Ban on Privately Funded Abortions  [PDF version] August 2010
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review

Facts and Consequences: Legality and Safety of Abortion Worldwide  [PDF version] December 2009
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review

Delineating the Obligations That Come with Conscientious Refusal: A Question of Balance  [PDF version] August 2009
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review

All That's Old Is New Again: The Long Campaign To Persuade Women to Forego Abortion  [PDF version] June 2009
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review

Advocates Call for a New Approach After the Era of 'Abstinence-Only' Sex Education March 2009
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review

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

 

Consortium for Research On Unsafe Abortion in Africa tools for researchers focused on Africa

 

Top Resources on Abortion

An Overview of Abortion Laws [PDF] (Updated Monthly)

Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States [PDF version] Fact sheet containing the most up-to-date research and policy information (May 2010)

Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress [PDF]
      Executive Summary [PDF]
(October 2009)

Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide [PDF version] (October 2009)

An Overview of Abortion in the United States Slide presentation showing the current status of abortion in the U.S. (October 2009)

Trends in the Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions, 1974–2004 (with supplementary tables) [PDF] ( September 2008)

State Facts About Abortion State-level fact sheets (January 2008)

Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress (Executive Summary) [PDF] ( October 2009)

 
 

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