Abortion Care: Stories, Perspectives, and Resources
Explore perspectives, practical resources, and stories from EngenderHealth’s work to expand access to respectful, high-quality abortion care, challenge stigma, and strengthen reproductive rights.
EngenderHealth supported the provision of 41,854 abortion and postabortion care services in the past program year, helping expand access to high-quality abortion and postabortion care.
International Safe Abortion Day | September 28
This International Safe Abortion Day, explore new perspectives, learning, and stories from people working to advance abortion rights and access to care.
Perspectives on Abortion Rights and Care
Why the Global Abortion Care Movement Gives Traci L. Baird Hope
EngenderHealth President and CEO Traci L. Baird reflects on more than three decades advancing abortion rights and care, what respectful, high-quality care requires, lessons from communities around the world, and why she remains hopeful about the global movement for reproductive rights.
Sometimes, Changing Hearts Is the First Step to Saving Lives
EngenderHealth Ethiopia’s Nardos Bogale reflects on what data alone can miss, how abortion stigma affects access to care, and why changing attitudes among providers and communities matters. Meet Nardos…
Abortion Care in Practice
Turning Rights into Reality
- 20+ youth and feminist organizations engaged
- Nearly 245,000 people reached with safe abortion care services
Benin’s 2021 abortion law created new possibilities for access, but legal reform alone could not ensure people understood or could exercise their rights. EngenderHealth worked with government, health professionals, and civil society to help translate legal rights into information, services, and community action.
Bringing Safe Abortion Care Closer to Survivors in Ethiopia
After EngenderHealth-supported training, midwife Rahimet Yibka began providing safe abortion care through her One-Stop Center, helping survivors access timely, confidential, nonjudgmental care without being referred elsewhere. Read Rahimet’s story…
Breaking Biases in the Health System
Healthcare provider Thiyanga confronted his own abortion bias through values clarification training and became an advocate for compassionate, evidence-based care and more respectful conversations with clients, colleagues, and community members. Read Thiyanga’s story…
Unpacking and Eradicating Bias
Medical intern Hymanot recognized how stigma had shaped her own judgments about abortion. Values clarification training helped her challenge those biases and strengthen her commitment to unbiased care and advocacy among her peers. Read Hymanot’s story…
Responding to Opposition and Stigma
Meeting Opposition with Action
Drawing on EngenderHealth’s work across Africa, this practical learning resource shares six strategies for countering misinformation, addressing provider bias and abortion stigma, strengthening partnerships, and responding to organized antichoice opposition.
Practical Resources
Strategy for Expanding Abortion Rights, Equity, and Access
EngenderHealth’s strategy outlines how we work with communities, health systems, governments, and partners to expand access to high-quality abortion care and advance abortion rights.
Postabortion Care Curriculum
Postabortion care (PAC) combines emergency treatment for complications of induced or spontaneous abortion with voluntary contraceptive counseling and services. When it is accessible, affordable, and high quality, PAC can help prevent maternal deaths and disabilities and improve access to contraception.
EngenderHealth’s revised curriculum includes a Trainer Guide, Participant Guide, Reference Manual, and related slide decks, incorporating updated guidance and global health learning.
REDI Counseling Framework: Client-Centered SRHR Training
EngenderHealth’s REDI Counseling Framework helps healthcare providers deliver respectful, client-centered counseling that supports informed decision-making and client autonomy. The updated framework includes specific guidance on the quality of counseling for abortion clients, along with training materials for providers, trainers, and program implementers.
Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Tools
EngenderHealth’s GYSI tools help teams identify and address how gender, age, power, and social exclusion can shape access to sexual and reproductive healthcare. The resources support reflection on bias and the integration of inclusive, rights-based approaches across programs, including abortion care.
EngenderHealth Language Guide: Abortion
Guidance for communicating about abortion accurately, respectfully, and without stigma.
Our Comprehensive Abortion Care Expertise
EngenderHealth works with governments, healthcare providers, communities, and local organizations to expand access to comprehensive abortion care, strengthen quality and health systems, reduce stigma, and support people in exercising their reproductive rights.