We need more Americans to speak up about abortion—and to support the advocates, organizations, and decisionmakers working to protect and expand abortion access. That’s why Ipas worked with Eden Stanley, an audience-centered firm, to conduct broad public opinion research. Our findings reveal three priority demographic groups most likely to support organizations and political candidates championing abortion rights. Based on the values and beliefs of these groups, we’ve identified key messaging takeaways. In this brief, we share data and takeaways most relevant for U.S. advocates.

Anti-rights groups and movements are expanding their work into new and seemingly unlikely spaces to impose regressive, fundamentalist Christian views on human rights, family, gender, and sexuality. This briefing paper outlines the activities of three anti-rights groups based in the Global North leading a transnational attack on an economic agreement between the European Union (EU) and its country partners in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) – known as the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement (the Agreement). Christian Council International, Family Watch International, and the Political Network for Values are taking issue with EU efforts to include protective language on human rights, and specifically sexual and reproductive health and rights within the Agreement. While it is unlikely that they will succeed in altogether derailing the Agreement renewal process, the investment of attention, time, and money warrants closer inspection by human rights activists and the media, as well as EU and ACP negotiators, parliamentarians, and other stakeholders. 

Upholding migrants’ sexual and reproductive rights in Bolivia
Fleeing hardships and unrest, Venezuelans have been migrating to Bolivia in growing numbers. When they arrive, they face the basic challenges of migrants everywhere—including lack of access to sexual and reproductive health care.

Amidst ever-increasing abortion restrictions in the United States, new research commissioned by Ipas shows nine in 10 Americans oppose total abortion bans.

Esta guía de facilitación complementa a Los cimientos del cambio: guía paso a paso sobre el advocacy para ampliar el acceso a los servicios de aborto seguro, publicada por Ipas en 2018.

August 2022 marked five years since more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled persecution in Myanmar and arrived in refugee camps across the border in Bangladesh. Much has changed for the people who now call these camps home, but the need for sexual and reproductive health services—including abortion care—has remained constant.

Decades of armed conflict, economic unrest and public health crises have left nearly 20 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in need of humanitarian assistance. The internally displaced population is more than 5 million, and sexual violence against women and girls is widespread. Ipas DRC, in partnership with community-based organizations, is working to ensure that reproductive health care—including abortion and contraception—is available to women and girls affected by these crises.

Against the backdrop of a brutal civil war, Ipas Ethiopia helps health facilities prioritize sexual and reproductive health care services, including abortion care, and re-establish those services in areas where they have been disrupted. Supporting humanitarian agencies and community organizations, Ipas provides refresher trainings in abortion and contraceptive care for health workers and works with pharmacists and mobile health units to ensure abortion pills are available throughout the region so that women can manage their abortion themselves, without needing to go to a health facility.