Abortion Access Project

Current Organizing Agenda To increase the participation of a wide range of health care providers in providing and connecting women to safe abortion care. Goals and Tactics a. Build teams of state stakeholders and decision makers to engage in community-based shared learning about abortion in their region/state and develop a long-range strategy for ensuring the accessibility of safe abortion care. b. Locally engage and support health care providers to expand the number of primary care settings that provide early abortion, assessing the sustainability and feasibility of establishing early abortion as a recognized, routine and accepted primary health care service c. Work with local abortion providers and health professions training programs to promote the development of sustainable medication and aspiration abortion training opportunities for qualified clinicians so that all interested and qualified clinicians can access training. d. Increase the engagement of front line health workers such as nurses, community health workers, health educators, and reception staff in ensuring the provision of quality information and timely referrals to abortion care. e. Promote and disseminate innovative practices to deliver quality information and timely referrals to women seeking abortion among diverse local health care information and service providers f. Collaborate to look beyond a legislative context to identify and populate local decision-making bodies that influence abortion service delivery g. Ensure that local/community-level independent perspectives are represented in key national reproductive rights conversations h. Collaborate with local stakeholders and stakeholder organizations to pilot and assess priority interventions identified in the strategic assessment process and lay the groundwork for the use of assessment results to inform further program and policy development.