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 ...

In the November 2026 election, voters in three states (Idaho, Nevada and Virginia) will consider ballot measures designed to protect abortion rights by affirming a statutory or constitutional right to ...

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 ...

Misinformation about abortion care is rampant and being weaponized at state and federal levels to justify wide-ranging restrictions across the United States. Ensuring awareness of these narratives, ...

Today the Guttmacher Institute released new data from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study, showing that there were an estimated 1,126,000 clinician-provided abortions in the United States in 2025.

This report presents new 2025 full-year estimates of the incidence of clinician-provided abortion care and travel across state lines for abortion from Guttmacher’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study.