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What you can do
Here’s what you can do to support access to medical abortion:
If you are a health-care provider:
- Demand access to mifepristone and/or misoprostol, for medical abortion or for other indications
- Integrate medical abortion into your practice
- Lead or participate in research studies demonstrating the feasibility and advantages of medical abortion in your setting
- Support women’s choice of abortion methods
- Help share information about medical abortion with health-care professionals and facility staff
- Promote access to medical abortion within your medical, midwifery, nursing, pharmacy or other professional association
If you are an advocate:
- Promote policies and campaigns that increase access to safe abortion, including medical abortion
- Provide others, including the media and policymakers, with accurate information about medical abortion
- Facilitate information sharing and networking among health-care and women’s rights supporters
- Explore access to medical abortion as it relates to social justice and human rights, including the right to information and the right to the benefits of scientific progress
If you are a policymaker:
- Advocate for the incorporation of medical abortion into your health system
- Support the registration of mifepristone and misoprostol in your country
- Promote women’s rights and remove barriers that prevent women from accessing abortion care and other sexual and reproductive health services
If you are a researcher:
- Design and conduct research related to the feasibility of using medical abortion in health facilities
- Design and conduct research on women’s perspectives and experiences with medical abortion and the channels through which they receive health information
- Conduct cost studies on the provision of medical abortion
- Help disseminate key research on medical abortion to policymakers, advocates and providers
Click here for useful resources or contact us at medicalabortion@ipas.org
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