Advanced practice clinicians—which include physician associates (also known as physician assistants), advanced practice registered nurses, nurse practitioners, certified midwives and certified nurse ...

Today, the Guttmacher Institute released a fact sheet with new data from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study on the proportion of abortions in 2025 provided by Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs).

NEW YORK, October 29, 2026 — The Guttmacher Institute today announced that Fajer Saeed Ebrahim has assumed the role of chair of its Board of Directors, effective October 29. Saeed Ebrahim succeeds ...

Eighty percent of all US counties are considered to have either extreme gaps in access, or no access to any low-or no-cost contraceptive care. When the focus is on clinics providing the full range of ...

Travel across state lines remains a major avenue of access to abortion care in the United States. In 2025, more than 140,000 people traveled outside of their state of residence to obtain abortion care ...

As people across the United States continue to face profound gaps in access to sexual and reproductive health care, many states are compounding these inequities with new restrictions and barriers to ...

In January 2026, the Trump administration massively expanded the “global gag rule” in an unprecedented attempt by the US government to roll back rights worldwide. Compared with previous versions of ...

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 ...

For decades, Medicaid has been central to contraceptive care and other reproductive health services for low-income people in the United States. Massive cuts to Medicaid under the recent federal budget ...

The U.S. has long been the largest donor to global health programs, but under the Trump administration, that support is rapidly disappearing. The resulting funding cuts are devastating reproductive ...