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NAF's publications on abortion care and delivery are available to health care professionals, medical educators, women, legislators, and advocates.

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ABOUT ABORTION

Abortion Facts (also available as HTML pages)

• What Is Medical Abortion? (PDF file, 26K)
• Safety of Abortion (PDF file, 34K)
• Abortion After 12 Weeks (PDF file, 31K)
• First Trimester Abortion: A Comparison of Procedures (PDF file, 68K)
• Facts About Mifepristone (RU-486) (PDF file, 30K)
• Abortion and Breast Cancer (PDF file, 29K)
• Post-Abortion Issues (PDF file, 28K)
• Women Who Have Abortions (PDF file, 29K)
• Economics of Abortion (PDF file, 23K)
• Access to Abortion (PDF file, 33K)
• Crisis Pregnancy Centers (PDF file, 35K)
• Teenage Women, Abortion, and the Law (PDF file, 28K)
• Public Funding for Abortion: Medicaid and the Hyde Amendment (PDF file, 28K)
• Abortion and Title X (PDF file, 31K)
• Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act (PDF file, 44K)

Increasing Access

• Developing Cultural Competence in Reproductive Health Care: Understanding Every Woman (PDF file, 2.3 MB)
• Increasing Access to Abortion for Women in Diverse Communities (PDF file, 3.6 MB)
• Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights: The Indian Health Service and Its Inconsistent Application of the Hyde Amendment (PDF file, 426K)

Clinic Violence

• Violence and Disruption Statistics (PDF file, 16K)
• FBI Suspicious Mail Advisory (PDF file, 288K)

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ARE YOU PREGNANT ?

Unsure About Your Pregnancy? A Guide to Making the Right Decision for You

English (PDF file)
Spanish (PDF file)

Written by counseling expert Terry Beresford to aid both teens and adults who find it hard to make a decision about an unplanned pregnancy.

Making Your Choice: A Woman's Guide to Medical Abortion

NAF's patient education resource describes what to expect during a medical abortion and outlines the similarities and differences between medical and surgical abortion. Brochures are available in six languages.

• Chinese (PDF file, 181K)
• Croatian (PDF file, 153K)
• English (PDF file, 222K)
• Russian (PDF file, 182K)
• Spanish (PDF file, 209K)
• Vietnamese (PDF file, 1.4 MB)

NAF's Notice of Privacy Practices

Information (PDF file, 25K) about how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.

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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Clinical Policy Guidelines

NAF's 2013 Clinical Policy Guidelines (CPGs) (PDF file, 341K) and in Spanish: Lineamientos sobre políticas clínicas, 2012 (PDF file, 184K) serve as a convenient and readily usable set of systematically developed evidence-based standards that assist practitioners in their efforts to provide quality, patient-centered abortion care.

Clinical Training Curriculum in Abortion Practice, 2nd Edition

Includes ten training modules with corresponding PowerPoint slide sets on all aspects of clinical practice of abortion. Ideal for resident training. Download (requires free registration) or order now on CD.

The Abortion Option: A Values Clarification Guide for Health Professionals

The exercises in this publication (PDF file, 2.4 MB; version for black and white printers, 1.3 MB) are designed to help health care professionals to clarify their personal values about pregnancy options and abortion, and to think about those values in the context of their professional roles and responsibilities.

Bridging the Gap Between Abortion Training and Abortion Provision: Recommendations from a National Symposium

This report (PDF file, 283K) presents key findings and recommendations of an October 2000 Symposium on best practices in abortion training and strategies to ensure that resources invested in abortion training result in actual increases in the number of qualified providers.

Abortion Training in U.S. Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Programs, 1998

NAF's survey (PDF file, 167K) revealed that training in first trimester abortion techniques is a routine part of residency training in 46% of America's ob-gyn residency programs.

Affirmative Provisions in Support of Abortion Training

Abortion training provisions (PDF file, 48K) by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and other professionals.

Key Articles on Abortion, Residency Training, and Related Matters

This bibliography compiled by NAF (PDF file, 109K) includes peer-reviewed journal articles related to abortion training in medical schools and residency programs.

Clinicians for Choice

About CFC handout (PDF file, 29K) See also the About CFC page

Fact Sheet on Certified Nurse-Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants as Abortion Providers (PDF file, 76K)

Role of CNMs, NPs, and PAs in Abortion Care: What professional organizations are saying about clinicians and choice (PDF file, 96K)

The Role of Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Nurse-Midwives in Providing Abortions - Strategies for Expanding Abortion Access (PDF file, 209K)

Timeline, State by State: Expanding CNM, NP, and PA Provision of Abortion Care (PDF file, 27K)

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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION/Surgical Abortion

Early Vacuum Aspiration: An Alternative To and Back-up for Medical Abortion. This PowerPoint curriculum module compares early medical abortion and early vacuum aspiration, illustrates the technique for early manual vacuum aspiration, and describes the use of vacuum aspiration for completion of medical abortion.

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• Early Vacuum Aspiration: An Alternative To and Back-up for Medical Abortion (PowerPoint file, 9.5 MB)

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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION/Medical Abortion

Frequently Asked Questions about Mifepristone (PDF file, 31K, updated January 2008)

Becoming a Provider of Mifeprex®: What Providers Need to Know About the Prescriber's Agreement (PDF file, 64K)

Checklist for Starting Medical Abortion Services (PDF file, 77K)

Protocol Recommendations for Use of Methotrexate and Misoprostol in Early Abortion (PDF file, 120K)

Protocol for Mifepristone/Misoprostol in Early Abortion (PDF file, 54K)

Mifepristone/Misoprostol Protocol Comparison (PDF file, 26K)

Instructions for Using Vaginal Misoprostol in Medical Abortion (PDF file, 62K)

Suggested Supply List for Providers of Medical Abortion (PDF file, 51K)

Management of Side Effects and Complications in Medical Abortion: A Guide for Triage and On-Call Staff (PDF file, 58K)

Early Medical Abortion with Mifepristone and Other Agents: Overview and Protocol Recommendations

Provides a detailed overview of the published literature on medical abortion through September 2002 by Mitchell D. Creinin, MD, and includes NAF's protocol recommendations for medical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol and methotrexate/misoprostol. (PDF file, 370K)

Early Options: A Provider's Guide to Medical Abortion

These PowerPoint slide modules review data and essential points for the provision of medical abortion, including regimens, counseling, patient management, and administrative issues

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• Overview of Medical Abortion: Clinical and Practice Issues (PowerPoint file, 1.2 MB)
• Medical Abortion Regimens (PowerPoint file, 828K)
• Expected Side Effects and Management of Complications in Medical Abortion (PowerPoint file, 2.0 MB)

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RESEARCH

How do you know if a study is a "good" study? This article, "Clinical Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Baedeker for Busy Clinicians" (PDF file, 1.1 MB), by David Grimes, MD and Kenneth Schulz, PhD, MBA, includes tips about how to assess the methodology, results and conclusions of scientific studies.

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U.S. PUBLIC POLICY

In Congress

• National Abortion Federation Supports "Prevention First" Agenda to Expand Access to Contraception, Family Planning Services, and Medically Accurate Sex Education (PDF file, 59K)

In the Executive Branch

• Executive Summary of NAF and PPFA Comments to the FDA on the Safety and Efficacy of Mifepristone (PDF file, 44K)
• Comments of NAF and PFA in Opposition to the Citizen Petition and Request for Administrative Stay Regarding Mifeprex® (Mifepristone) (PDF file, 1.0 MB)

In the Courts

• NAF v. Ashcroft Ruling (PDF file, 3.8 MB)
• NAF v. Ashcroft Temporary Restraining Order (PDF file, 531K)
• Federal Abortion Ban Side by Side (PDF file, 107K)

Amicus Briefs

• Gonzales v. Carhart (PDF file, 175K) and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PDF file, 81K)
• USA v. Bird (PDF file, 847K) and addendum with exhibits (PDF file, 3.3 MB)
• Greenville Women's Clinic v. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (PDF file, 190K)
• Stenberg v. Carhart (Carhart I) (PDF file, 2.3 MB)

In the States

• 2003 State Legislative Report (PDF file, 107K)
• 2004 State Legislative Report (PDF file, 42K)
• Reproductive Choice in the States in 2005 (PDF file, 120K)

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CANADA

• Has Your Physician Refused to Provide a Referral for Abortion Care? A Patient's Guide to Action (PDF file, 51K)

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ABOUT NAF

• About NAF in Canada - fact sheets in English (PDF file, 20K) and in French (PDF file, 22K)

Annual Reports

• 2007: Celebrating 30 Years (PDF file, 1.8 MB)
• 2006: Looking Forward (PDF file, 818K)

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

• Institutionalizing Manual Vacuum Aspiration Abortion in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (PDF file, 990K)

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