Rights and Responsibilities: Healthy Pregnancies, Contraception and Abortion - United States, Canada and Western Europe
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United States, Canada and Western Europe resources
Media kits
An Overview of Abortion in the United States
January 2008
Striking a Balance Between a Provider's Right to Refuse and a Patient's Right to Receive Care
August 2005
Emergency Contraception Has Tremendous Potential in the Fight to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy
May 2005
Fact sheets
Facts on Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services in the United States [PDF version]
August 2008
Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States [PDF version]
January 2008
State Facts About Abortion
January 2008
Facts on Contraceptive Use [PDF version]
January 2008
In the Know: Questions About Pregnancy, Contraception and Abortion
May 2006
Contraception Counts: Ranking State Efforts
February 2006
Highlighted policy articles
Making HIV Tests 'Routine': Concerns and Implications [PDF version]
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review, May 2008
State Abortion Counseling Policies and the Fundamental Principles of Informed Consent [PDF version]
Rachel Benson Gold and Elizabeth Nash
Guttmacher Policy Review, November 2007
Repeat Abortion, Repeat Unintended Pregnancy, Repeated and Misguided Government Policies [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, May 2007
Misinformed Consent: The Medical Accuracy of State-Developed Abortion Counseling Materials [PDF version]
Chinué Turner Richardson and Elizabeth Nash
Guttmacher Policy Review, October 2006
Abortion and Mental Health: Myths and Realities [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, August 2006
Rekindling Efforts to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy: A Matter of 'Equity and Common Sense' [PDF version]
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review, August 2006
Roe or No Roe, Right to Abortion Seen Eroding Under Newly Constituted Supreme Court
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, March 2006
Contraception Counts: Ranking States Efforts [PDF]
Cynthia Dailard
In Brief, February 2006
Promoting Prevention to Reduce the Need for Abortion: Good Policy, Good Politics [PDF version]
Cynthia Dailard
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, May 2005
Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past be Prologue? [PDF version]
Rachel Benson Gold
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, March 2003
Emergency Contraception: Steps Being Taken to Improve Access [PDF version]
Heather Boonstra
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, December 2002
Emergency Contraception: The Need to Increase Public Awareness [PDF version]
Heather Boonstra
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, October 2002
Mifepristone in the United States: Status and Future [PDF version]
Heather Boonstra
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, August 2002
A Message to the President: Abortion Can Be Safe, Legal and Still Rare [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, February 2001
"In Brief"
Improving Contraceptive Use in the United States [PDF]
May 2008
Contraception Counts: Ranking States Efforts [PDF]
Cynthia Dailard
February 2006
Highlighted research articles
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
Contraceptive Use and Pregnancy Risk Among U.S. High School Students, 1991-2003 [PDF version]
John S. Santelli, Brian Morrow, John E. Anderson and Laura Duberstein Lindberg
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 38, Issue 2, June 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
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
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
Reports
Trends in the Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions, 1974-2004 [PDF]
Stanley K. Henshaw and Kathryn Kost
September 2008
Trends in the Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions, 1974-2004 (with supplemental tables) [PDF]
Stanley K. Henshaw and Kathryn Kost
September 2008
Public Funding for Family Planning, Sterilization and Abortion Services, FY 1980-2006 [PDF]
Adam Sonfield, Casey Alrich and Rachel Benson Gold
January 2008
Repeat Abortion in the United States [PDF]
Rachel K. Jones, Susheela Singh, Lawrence B. Finer and Lori F. Frohwirth
November 2006
Estimating the Impact of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility for Family Planning Services [PDF]
Jennifer J. Frost, Adam Sonfield and Rachel Benson Gold
August 2006
Abortion in Women's Lives [PDF]
May 2006
The Unfinished Revolution in Contraception: Convenience, Consumer Access and Choice [PDF]
January 2004
Statistics
Contraceptive Needs and Services, 2001-2006
June 2008
Public Funding for Contraceptive, Sterilization and Abortion Services, FY 1980-2006
January 2008
Estimates of U.S. Abortion Incidence, 2001-2003 [PDF]
Lawrence B. Finer and Stanley K. Henshaw
August 2006
Family Planning Annual Report: 2004 Summary [PDF]
Jennifer J. Frost
July 2005
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
Contraception in the United States: Current Use and Continuing Challenges
May 2004
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