• Non-profit organisations engaged in the field of abortion
• Websites for women with an unwanted pregnancy
• List of abortion providers
• Unsafe abortion
• Guidelines
• Family planning associations
• Various in family planning and contraception
• Legal aspects
• National abortion statistics
• Historical aspects
• Various sources

Non-profit organisations engaged in the field of abortion:

Abortion Rights Coalition Canada - Coalition pour le droit à l'avortement au Canada:
www.arcc-cdac.ca

Canadians for Choice - Assocation canadienne pour la liberté de choix: www.canadiansforchoice.ca

Australian Reproductive Health Alliance: www.arha.org.au

ICMA (International Consortium of Medial Abortion): www.medicalabortionconsortium.org

Ireland - the Safe and Legal in Ireland Campaign: www.safeandlegalinireland.ie

France, ANCIC (Association des Centres d'Interuption de grossesse et de Contraception) www.ancic.asso.fr

Mexico, GIRE (Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida) www.gire.org.mx

Netherlands: StiSAN (Stichting Samenwerkende Abortusklinieken Nederland/Dutch abortion clinics foundation), www.stisan.nl
List of clinics: http://www.stisan.nl/documents/content/klinieken/klinieken.asp

Netherlands: Nederlands Genootschap van Abortusartsen, www.ngva.net

Netherlands: Women on Waves: www.womenonwaves.org

Spain: ACAI (Asociacion de clinicas acreditadas para la interupcion voluntaria del embarazo): www.acaive.com

Switzerland: Schweizerische Vereinigung für Straflosigkeit des Schwangerschaftsabbruchs
Union suisse pour décriminaliser l'avortement /
Unione svizzera per decriminalizzare l'aborto: www.svss-uspda.ch

UK: Abortion Rights, the national pro-choice campaign: www.abortionrights.org.uk/

US, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals: www.arhp.org

US, IPAS: www.ipas.org

US, NAF (National Abortion Federation) www.prochoice.org

US: NCAP (National Coalition of Abortion Providers) www.ncap.com

US: Pro-choice feminist students: feministcampus.org

Womens network for global rights: www.wgnrr.nl



Websites for women with an unwanted pregnancy:

Information on medical abortion in English, Spanish, Arabic and French: www.medicationabortion.com

Information on all methods in German: www.abtreibung.at

Medical abortion with misoprostol alone in English and German: www.misoprostol.org

Online medical abortion help service: www.womenonweb.org


List of abortion providers:

International:
Sexual Health Services and abortion clinics Worldwide - Women on Waves

Austria:
Gynmed Clinic Vienna: www.gynmed.at
Other clinics in Austria: www.abtreibung.at

Germany:
List of doctors and clinics: www.abtreibung.at

Netherlands:
Beahuis & Bloemenhovekliniek: www.bloemenhove.nl
Stisan, http://en.stisan.nl
Centres for Contraception, sexual health and abortion CASA: www.casa.nl

New Zealand:
www.abortion.gen.nz

Spain:
List of clinics of the ACAIVE association: ww.acaive.com

Switzerland:
www.svss-uspda.ch

UK:
British Pregnancy Advisory Service: www.bpas.org
Marie Stopes International: www.mariestopes.org.uk
Birmingham: www.calthorpe-clinic.co.uk
South Manchester clinic www.smpclinic.co.uk

US:
List of NAF (Providers in the North America): www.prochoice.org/pregnant/find/index.html
The Abortion Clinic Directory of NCAP (Providers in the North America): www.abortionclinicdirectory.com
Abortion Clinics Online (Providers in the North America): www.gynpages.com



Unsafe abortions:

Example of an unsafe abortion from the US, when abortion was still illegal: www.sapphireblue.com/25years/

WHO publications and documents on prevention of unsafe abortion

WHO: "Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2000"
www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/

Fact sheet on unsafe abortion around the world by Planned Parenthood Federation of America: www.plannedparenthood.org

Safe Motherhood Fact Sheet: Unsafe Abortion: www.safemotherhood.org

Complications of Unsafe Abortion by the Population Information Program, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimor, US: www.infoforhealth.org/

The Incidence of Induced Abortion in Uganda (one of the many countries where abortion is illegal) www.guttmacher.org



Guidelines:

International overview of existing guidelines by the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research: www.gfmer.ch

WHO: Safe Abortion. Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems"
World Health Organization 2003
Information and order form at: www.who.int

WHO: Frequently asked clinical questions about medical abortion, 2006

UK- Royal College of OB/Gyn: The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion", Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, UK, www.rcog.org.uk

France - ANAES: Prise en charge de l'interruption volontaire de grossesse jusqu'à 14 semaines (version française)
Induced abortion up to 14 weeks (english version)

Australia/NZ- Royal College of OB/Gyn: Termination of pregnancy: A resource for health professionals, November 2005 www.ranzcog.edu.au

US: NAF textbook "A Clinician’s Guide to Medical and Surgical Abortion": www.prochoice.org

Ultrasound examination in early medical abortion : A Clinician’s Guide as pdf

Suivi échographique des I.V.G. médicamenteuses en pdf

Family planning associations:

Internation Planned Parenthood Federation: www.ippf.com

List of national family planning associations: www.ippf.org/links/index.htm

Austria: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Familienplanung: www.oegf.at

Belgium: Planning Familial Belge, http://home.pi.be/planning-familial

France: Association Francaise pour la Contraception: www.contraceptions.org

France: Mouvement français pour le planning familial, France: www.planning-familial.org

Germany: Pro Familia: www.profamilia.de

UK: Family Planning Association: www.fpa.org.uk



Various in family planning and contraception

European Society of Contraception: www.contraception-esc.com

Contraception Online, The online contraceptive resource for clinicans, researchers and educators: www.contraceptiononline.org

The Hall of Contraception, Contraception Museum: http://desires.com/1.6/Sex/Museum/museum1.html


Legal aspects:

Council of Europe: resolution for member states to guarantee 'right to access to a safe and legal abortion' voted on 16. April 2008, http://assembly.coe.int

Is there a need for an abortion law at all? Experiences from Canada with no law since 1988 - read the blog or download the article as pdf: www.arcc-cdac.ca/action/repeal.pdf

Abortion Policies A Global Review, United Nations Population Division: www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion

Abortion laws of the world: http://annualreview.law.harvard.edu/population/abortion/abortionlaws.htm

Abortion Policies: A Global Review, UN: www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/index.htm

Abortion in law, history and religion; by the Childbirth by Choice Trust, Canada: www.cbctrust.com

Abortion legislation in Europe, IPPF: www.ippfen.com/files/105.pdf

Abortion legislation in Europe. A publication from IPPF to download as pdf, updated january 2002

The Centre of Reproductive Law and Policy, US: www.crlp.org

The Canadian experience: no abortion law since 1988
Overview - Chronology of court cases

Access to abortion services act, Canada, British Columbia, Canada
Civil statute prohibiting protesters outside abortion clinics, and doctors' offices and homes

Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994, (FACE) - U.S.
Federal legislation protecting abortion clinics

The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), US: www.naral.org

La législation lative à l'interruption volontaire de grossesse dans quel que pays d'Europe: www.senat.fr/lc/lc68/lc68.html
(Abortion laws in some European countries in French,)


National abortion statistics:

Germany in English - auf Deutsch

Canada
more details here (Download as .xls

Finland: www.stakes.info
(Has an English section)

France: (download, 1,1 MB/MO) Direction de la Recherche, des Études, de l'Évaluation et des Statistiques, numéro 279, décembre 2003: www.sante.gouv.fr/drees/etude-resultat/er-pdf/er279.pdf

Italy: www.istat.it/dati/catalogo/20060310_00/

Netherlands: www.stisan.nl

Netherlands Health Care Inspectorate: www.igz.nl

Scotland

Sweden in English - på swenska

New Zealand

UK Department of Health: www.dh.gov.uk

United States - to download the document as pdf click here

United States - to view the document as html click here

Historical aspects

Museum of Contraception and Abortion, Vienna: www.muvs.org

A history of abortion techniques in the United States, 1850-1980

Abortion in a historic context

Symposium 2003: Abortion: Research, Ethics and Activism

Various sources:

"Why I provide abortions" by Dr. William Harrison

Pro-Choice Action Network, Canada

Central And Eastern European Women’s Network For Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights, Poland: www.astra.org.pl

The Alan Guttmacher Institute, US: www.agi-usa.org

Feminist Women's Health Center, US: www.fwhc.org/index.htm

Medication abortion, facts and information for health care providers: www.medicationabortion.com

UK: An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas: www.abortionreview.org

UK, Pro Choice forum: http://www.prochoiceforum.org.uk/

US: Population Council: www.popcouncil.org

US: New York: Museum of Sex, (has a section of hisotry of abortion): http://www.museumofsex.com

Womens Health Interactive: www.womens-health.com

Medscape Womens Health: www.medscape.com

Positive experiences with abortion: www.imnotsorry.net

Images of Embryos used by Anti-Abortion Activists

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