These full-text materials are in PDF format for your ease of use. They include the World Health Organization's publication Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems in English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, as well as other advocacy and educational materials by NGOs.
  1. World Health Organization, Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems
    (Geneva: WHO, 2003).
    English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
  1. Alan Guttmacher Institute, Sharing Responsibility: Women, Society & Abortion Worldwide (New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1999).

  2. Center for Reproductive Rights, The World's Abortion Laws 2004 (New York: CRR, 2004).

  3. Center for Reproductive Rights, Safe and Legal Abortion is a Woman's Human Right (New York: CRR, 2004).

  4. Center for Reproductive Rights, Crafting an Abortion Law that Respects Human Rights (New York: CRR, 2004).

  5. Center for Reproductive Rights, From Rights to Reality: How to Advocate for Women's Reproductive Freedom Worldwide (CRR: New York, 2003)

  6. Hord, C.E. Making Safe Abortion Accessible: A Practical Guide for Advocates (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2001). English, Spanish

  7. Ipas, Establishing Legal Abortion Services where the Law Is Restrictive (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 1999). English, Spanish, Portuguese

  8. Ipas, Human Rights, Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion-related Care: Reference Information and Illustrative Cases (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2002). English, Spanish
  1. Frankel, N. and M. Abernathy (eds), Performing Uterine Evacuation with the Ipas MVA Plus ™ Aspirator and Ipas EasyGrip® Cannulae: Instructional Booklet (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2004). English, Spanish

  2. Herrick, J., et al., Woman-centered Postabortion Care: Reference Manual (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2004). English, Spanish, Portuguese

  3. Ipas, A Guide to Providing Abortion Care (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2002). English, Romanian, Russian

  4. Ipas, Early Abortion with Mifepristone and Misoprostol (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2004). English, Portuguese, Spanish

  5. Ipas, Manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) for uterine evacuation: Pain management (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2002).

  6. Ipas, Misoprostol alone for first-trimester medical abortion (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2004). English, Portuguese, Spanish

  7. Ipas, Misoprostol as cervical preparation agent for first-trimester surgical abortion (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2004). English, Portuguese, Spanish

  8. Ipas, Misoprostol for first-trimester missed abortion (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2004). English, Portuguese, Spanish

  9. Ipas, What is woman-centered comprehensive abortion care? (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2003).

  10. Ipas, "Deciding women's lives are worth saving: Expanding the role of midlevel providers in safe abortion care," Issues in Abortion Care 7 (2002).

  11. Jones, R.K. and S.K. Henshaw, "Mifepristone for early medical abortion: experiences in France, Great Britain and Sweden," Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 2002, 34(3): 154-161.

  12. Talluri-Rao, S., and T.L. Baird, Information and Training Guide for Medical Abortion Counseling (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2003). English, Portuguese

  13. Turner, K., T. McInerney and J. Herrick, Woman-Centered Postabortion Care: Trainer's Manual (Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 2004). English, Portuguese, Spanish