Our New Research on the Policy Outcomes of Abortion Bans: Strategies for Disseminating Information on Reproductive Health Access

Our research data on the impact of abortion bans is very compelling, showing that a key strategy that social movements and activists, NGOs, and transnational governance institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO) are using is to post critical information about obtaining abortions (including information about self-managed abortions and protocols) online so that there is equity in access to it. Their resources recommend using a safe and vetted organization such as Plan C to obtain abortions out of state, and to obtain abortion medication. Here is an example from the WHO, as we have found in our research, of the kind of information these organizations and movements are providing as a way of responding to abortion bans: