Self-managed abortion, when a person performs their own abortion without clinical
supervision, is a model of abortion care used across a range of settings. To provide a …

Background Clinical trials have established the high effectiveness and safety of medication
abortion in clinical settings. However, barriers to clinical abortion care have shifted most …

Barriers to access abortion services globally have led to the development of alternative
methods to assist and support women who seek an abortion. One such method is the use of …

This commentary explores how self-managed abortion (SMA) has transformed
understandings of and discourses on safe abortion and associated health inequities through …

Background To evaluate the feasibility of conducting a prospective study to measure self-
managed medication abortion outcomes, and to collect preliminary data on safety and …

The COVID-19 pandemic is striking health care systems around the world through an
unprecedented increase in demand. In responding to this crisis, governments and health …

This paper proposes the concept of autonomous health movements, drawing on an analysis
of harm reduction in the United States and self-managed abortion globally. Harm reduction …

There are a growing number of abortion helplines where counselors provide person-
centered medication abortion services in legally restrictive settings. Few researchers have …

Introduction Unsafe abortion past the first trimester disproportionately accounts for the
majority of global abortion-related morbidity and mortality; research that documents the …

Abortion rights in international law have historically been framed within a medico-legal
paradigm, the belief that regulated systems of legal and medical control guarantee safe …