June 9, 2026
Guttmacher Institute
Pharmacists in Ethiopia can develop the skills and knowledge to provide medication abortion and pharmacies have the potential to be essential hubs for safe and confidential abortion care, but most pharmacies and other drug sellers lack the stock of medications needed. These are among the key findings of new studies released Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, the St. Paul’s Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR) and Ipas.
Floriane Borel, Jessica D. Rosenberg, Elizabeth A. Sully, Margaret Giorgio, Guttmacher Institute
April 27, 2026
Access to safe abortion care is an essential component of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Ensuring this access globally is vital to protecting the health, lives and well-being of millions of people, eliminating preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, and upholding the reproductive autonomy of individuals to make decisions about their own bodies, fertility and future. Abortion care is proven to be extremely safe and effective, yet it remains prohibited or restricted in many countries and severely underfunded, despite being clearly documented as a cost-effective health intervention. New data from the Guttmacher Institute illustrate how improved provision of safe abortion care can effectively reduce health system costs.
Guttmacher’s new Safe Abortion Calculator is a tool to help advocates, policymakers and program implementers better visualize the health and economic impacts of expanding access to safe abortion care within the health system and provide easily accessible evidence to support their advocacy and decision-making.
Continued: https://www.guttmacher.org/2026/04/new-tool-support-global-safe-abortion-advocacy
New Evidence on Impacts of Investment in Family Planning, 2024
April 23, 2026
Meltem Odabaș, Chelsea Polis, Elizabeth A. Sully, Guttmacher Institute
Investments in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are among the most cost-effective development interventions available. Supporting SRHR improves health, prevents unintended pregnancies, reduces maternal and infant mortality, and expands educational and economic opportunities for women and girls. The evidence is clear: Funding for sexual and reproductive health is central to resilient health systems, human rights, gender equality and sustainable development.
In Asia and the Pacific,* the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services remains substantial, driven by persistent gaps in health system capacity, geographic barriers to service delivery, and increasing vulnerability to humanitarian crises and climate-related disasters. These challenges contribute to significant gaps in access to essential services, including contraception, safe abortion care, and maternal and newborn health services.
Continued: https://www.guttmacher.org/2026/04/just-numbers-australia-global-srhr-investment-impact-2024
Guttmacher Institute
March 16, 2026
Also referred to as the Mexico City Policy, the global gag rule has been in effect under every Republican president since 1984. Past iterations of the policy deemed non-US nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) ineligible for US foreign assistance if they provided, referred people for or promoted abortion services—even if they used other funding to do so.
During his first administration, President Trump expanded the policy from applying solely to international family planning assistance to all global health funding and required recipients of US foreign aid to apply the rule’s restrictions to all of their subrecipients (even those that do not receive any US funding).
Continued: https://www.guttmacher.org/2026/03/weaponizing-us-foreign-aid-trumps-new-2026-global-gag-rule
There are about a dozen fewer brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in the US than there were two years ago, according to a new report
By Deidre McPhillips
Feb 18, 2026
Dozens of abortion clinics closed in the US after the Supreme Court Dobbs decision revoked the federal right to an abortion in June 2022 — mostly in states that enacted bans. But the churn has continued, leaving even states with some of the most protective abortion policies to do more with less.
There were 753 brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in the US at the end of 2025, according to a new report by the Guttmacher Institute — 54 fewer than in 2020, including a net loss of 12 abortion clinics since March 2024.
Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/health/abortion-clinic-closures-guttmacher
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press
Feb 16, 2026
OTTAWA - Feminist and development groups are urging Canada not to turn its back on funding reproductive health and gender initiatives, as Canada focuses its foreign aid cuts on global health programming.
"A bold diplomatic voice is really crucial," Oxfam Canada executive director Lauren Ravon told a panel she hosted on Parliament Hill earlier this month.
Guttmacher Institute
January 2026
The Adding It Up study examines the need for, impact of and cost of fully investing in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care—services that ensure people can decide whether and when to have children, experience safe pregnancy and delivery, have healthy newborns, and have a safe and satisfying sexual life.
Access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services is recognized as a fundamental human right, essential for achieving gender equality and enabling individuals to make autonomous decisions about their own bodies, health and futures. Realizing this right for all women, especially those facing systemic barriers, upholds human dignity and advances equity across communities.
Quality of care is not enough without dialogue with women.
19 January 2026
The AMoCo* study continues to highlight persistent challenges related to abortion care and complications in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Conducted in two hospitals in Bangui (Central African Republic) and Jigawa State (Nigeria), it reveals that a significant proportion of patients seeking post-abortion care experienced poor communication with healthcare staff and mixed experiences in terms of respect and dignity. Women with less education and adolescents appear to be particularly vulnerable. This study, which had already revealed that severe post-abortion complications were five to seven times more likely in these two hospitals, demonstrates the importance of listening to women, giving them the opportunity to ask questions, and ensuring their privacy. These elements are essential to ensuring quality care for all women, regardless of their age or level of education.
Guttmacher institute
Jan 15, 2026
During the 2024 campaign, President Trump repeatedly tried to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation’s far-right policy agenda Project 2025,1 claiming to know nothing about the framework or the people behind it (despite many of its authors having roles in his first administration). One year in, however, it is clear that Project 2025 is serving as the Trump administration’s playbook for implementing an extreme policy agenda at the federal level, attacking sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) both domestically and globally.
… This fact sheet summarizes key components of Project 2025’s anti-SRHR agenda and then describes how and to what extent each has been implemented during the first year of the current administration.
A British doctor finds fear and legal chaos being transformed into a new, decentralized model of reproductive freedom
Sabrina Das
Jan 13, 2026
Along the broad, ceremonial expanse of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., its lanes framed by rows of evenly spaced trees, Amy Allina paused to remember how her career began. Years before she established herself as a consultant for reproductive rights nonprofits, she learned how to perform abortions with nothing more than a length of plastic tubing and a mason jar.
It was the early 1990s. She was part of a loose network of feminist health collectives — women who believed, with a conviction that feels almost radical now, that information belonged to everyone, especially when it concerned their bodies. A mentor taught her “menstrual extraction,” a low-tech method capable of removing the contents of the uterus in very early pregnancy. The procedure was performed in living rooms and kitchens, surrounded by friends. There were no machines, no metal instruments, no men in white coats.
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