Clinicians in Abortion Care (CIAC) is a membership group sponsored by NAF representing certified midwives (CM), certified nurse-midwives (CNMs), nurse practitioners (NPs), physician associates (PAs), nurses, and students of those professions, working to increase access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and abortion care.

CIAC Members have full NAF member benefits, including significantly discounted registration to NAF meetings and access to NAF’s online learning system, as well as resources crafted specifically for CIAC members. Apply for a NAF membership to join CIAC.

CIAC is led by Julie Jenkins, DNP, WHNP-BC, CIAC’s Strategist & Training Program Manager, and an elected Advisory Committee comprised of member experts from each of the professions represented by our membership. The Advisory Committee sets CIAC goals and helps to identify the areas in which CIAC works.

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CIAC Goals

If you have a question about APC provision of abortion practice in your state, please contact [email protected] or [email protected] or access the Abortion Provider Toolkit, a professional guide that provides evidence for abortion care as the work of NPs, PAs, and midwives. This toolkit includes a regularly-updated map of the legislative regulations on APC abortion care practice in the US.

Abortion Provider Toolkit

This Toolkit helps clinicians compile evidence to support the integration of early abortion care as an essential part of patients’ health care services.

The Abortion Provider Toolkit:

  • Provides evidence for abortion care as a natural extension of the work of Nurse Practitioners (NPs), midwives, and Physician Assistants (PAs) who care for patients at risk for or experiencing an unintended pregnancy.
  • Guides NPs, midwives, and PAs in the development of a professional portfolio that documents their education, knowledge, and training and the clinical and professional standards used to provide safe care, including both basic competencies and abortion care.
  • Includes essential information and statistics about abortion care and access, professional standards and competencies, and the roles of state and national professional organizations and state licensing boards.
Access the Toolkit

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Support CIAC

A gift to CIAC assists in our work to expand abortion access, provide continuity of care, and promote patient choice through:

  • Supporting the involvement of nurse practitioners, certified midwives, certified nurse midwives, physician associates, and nurses in the provision of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion, within their full professional scope.
  • Increasing education and training for clinicians in comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care.
  • Advocating for the removal of legal, organizational, and training restrictions for nurse practitioners, certified midwives, certified nurse-midwives, and physician associates in providing the full range of abortion care and replacing these with regulations that reflect the full scope of practice for advanced practice clinicians (APCs).
  • Supporting inter-professional team-based education, training, and practice in abortion care led by APCs.