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Abortion
Explore recent abortion-related grants, publications, clinical recommendations, and Society news.
Abortion policy and practice should be based upon the best available science. As a community, we build knowledge to increase and improve the delivery of and access to evidence-based care and align policy with evidence.

News and Updates

Announcing the 2020 Emerging Scholar awardees
The Society of Family Planning Research Fund is excited to announcethe 2020 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning grantees. The aim of the Emerging Scholars in… READ MORE
Announcing the recipients of the 2020 Changemakers in Family Planning awards
The Society of Family Planning Research Fund is proud to announce the 2020 Changemakers in Family Planning grantees. The aim of the Changemakers in Family Planning grant… READ MORE
The Society joins amicus brief in fight to keep injunction against enforcement of in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone
The Society of Family Planning has proudly joined the amicus brief filed yesterday in ACOG vs FDA. The amicus brief asks the court to deny… READ MORE

Recent Grants

Advancing access to medication abortion in primary care: Conducting a needs assessment for family planning training among internal medicine primary care residency programs
Nina Tan, MD, University of Washington
$7,500
Exploring trust and respect in family planning and reproductive health care experiences among Black and Indigenous Minnesota communities using a historical and reproductive justice lens
Asha Hassan, BA, MPH, Planned Parenthood North Central States
$7,500
Villains and victims: The impact of abortion stigma in Kansas abortion politics
Elise Higgins, MA, University of Kansas
$7,500
Perspectives and preferences of young women regarding pregnancy options counseling during adolescence
Laura Kirkpatrick, MD, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
$7,380
Effect of comprehensive sex education in the United States
Priscilla Lopez, MPH, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
$6,569
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Publications

New York state primary care physician practices and perspectives on offering reproductive health services
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Out-of-clinic and self-managed abortion in Bangladesh: A qualitative study of menstrual regulation providers
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Time trends in Massachusetts adolescents′ postabortion contraceptive uptake
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Maternal health equity and justice for pregnant women who experience incarceration
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Improving health equity for women involved in the criminal legal system
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Clinical Guidance

Medication abortion up to 70 days of gestation
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Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Consult Series #49: Cesarean scar pregnancy
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Reproductive services for women at high risk for maternal mortality: A report of the workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Fellowship in Family Planning, and the Society of Family Planning
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Cervical preparation for dilation and evacuation at 20–24 weeks’ gestation
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Medical abortion reporting of efficacy: The MARE guidelines
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