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Abortion affects every body. Support every body’s right to reproductive freedom. donate now For 50 years, Ipas has supported communities around the world to ensure access to abortion and contraception for all. Learn more about giving to Ipas Abortion a …
“For many people, seeking an abortion means facing isolation and judgement at every step toward getting the care they need. To dismantle abortion stigma, we must intervene not only at the individual level, but within the context of communities and societies.”
Conseils et ressources pour les formateurs et les agents de santé en première ligne sur les services d’avortement
Orientación y recursos para capacitadores y trabajadores de salud de primera línea en servicios de aborto.
There’s no shame in abortion. There’s no shame in talking about abortion. There’s no shame in fighting for bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom. We aren’t alone in our convictions—our research shows that nine out of 10 people living in the United States disagree with abortion bans.
Two well-known feminist activists—Lilianne Ploumen and Sergia Galván Ortega—are the newest members of the Ipas Board of Directors. Both have worked for decades to advance reproductive justice, gender equality and human rights. Ploumen is a Dutch femin …
Amsterdam, the Netherlands Lilianne Ploumen is a Dutch feminist activist, currently serving as senior advisor at Bureau Clara Wichmann, advancing women’s rights through strategic litigation and access to justice. She was a member of the Parliament of t …
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Sergia Galván Ortega is an educator specializing in women’s studies and human rights in the Dominican Republic. She has been a leader of the feminist movement in Latin America and the Caribbean for more than 40 years. …
Research has long shown that women and girls who experience gender-based violence at the hands of their husbands or sexual partners often experience poor reproductive health and unintended pregnancy. This issue is heightened in humanitarian settings, where women and girls are at increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence.
Home 9 Search Results Abortion rights and access vary widely across the Americas, but powerful movements for abortion rights are growing. The Green Wave feminist movement began in Latin America and has made historic change on abortion rights in re …
In June 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion for almost 50 years. With this decision, the U.S. joined a handful of autocratic, anti-democratic countries bent on denying human rights and restricting abortion—while the rest of the world is expanding abortion access. Since then, many states have enacted new legal restrictions, in some cases extreme enough to effectively ban abortion entirely. While rights vary state by state, overall people in the U.S. now have less reproductive freedom—with Black, indigenous and people of color facing the greatest barriers to bodily autonomy.
This evidence brief summarizes key findings from the qualitative component of the AMoCo study, which aims to describe the access to care and treatment of women and girls hospitalized in Castors Maternity Hospital in Bangui for potentially life-threatening and near-miss abortion complications such as severe haemorrhage, severe sepsis, and uterine and intra-abdominal perforation.
The right to live free from violence and the right to bodily autonomy are both human rights central to Ipas’s mission.
Home 9 Search Results This regional program works with partners across Latin America and the Caribbean to make high-quality sexual and reproductive health care more widely available—and to build movements for abortion rights and repeal of restrict …
Home 9 Search Results Abortion laws vary widely across Asia, ranging from liberal laws in Nepal and India to more restrictive laws in Pakistan and Myanmar. But even progressive laws do not guarantee a person can access abortion when needed. Across …
Home 9 Search Results Across Africa, movements for abortion rights and access are growing. But powerful cultural, religious, and political barriers persist in many countries, driving people to seek abortion with unsafe methods. Indeed, the most co …
Home 9 Search Results Abortion has been legal in South Africa since 1996, but unsafe abortion is still common and particularly impacts poor women and girls—especially those who live in rural areas. While abortion is also legal in Zambia, abortion …
Research and evidence show that people can safely and effectively self-manage medical abortion, also called abortion with pills, when they have accurate information. Abortion self-care (ASC) is abortion with pills without the necessity of a prescription. With ASC, a pregnant person manages as much of the process as they want on their own, with or without the involvement of a health-care provider.