Continuing Professional Development
E-Learning
Making Abortion Safe (Free access, registration required)
Websites
International Federation of Professional Abortion and Contraception Associates (FIAPAC)
FIAPAC is an organisation of professionals working in the field of abortion and contraception. Their website provides a broad range of information with an international perspective, in particular the contents and presentations from their annual conference.
National Abortion Federation (NAF)
US organisation whose mission is to ensure safe, legal, and accessible abortion care, and promote health and justice for women.
Innovating Education in Reproductive Health
A hub for cutting edge curricula to teach abortion and family planning to health professionals at all levels.
Doctors for Choice UK is a group of UK-based clinicians committed to comprehensive, evidence-based reproductive healthcare who campaign for the decriminalization of abortion in the UK. DfC believes that evidence-based, high-quality abortion care should be recognised as a routine part of women’s reproductive healthcare and accessible to everyone who needs it.
Medical Students for Choice is an internationally recognized non-profit organization with a network of over 10 000 medical students and residents around the world. The organization has a few chapters in Ireland and offers lots of support for curriculum development.
Papers/Journal Articles
Members can read (and post) about recent publications within the Membership Forum blog.
Books
Sheldon S, Wellings K (eds). Decriminalising Abortion in the UK. What Would It Mean? Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2020 Review (Charlotte Kelly) Book Review Decriminalising Abortion in the UK 22042020 [OPEN ACCESS]
Cohen DS, Joffe C. Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to get an Abortion in America. Oakland, CA, USA: University of California Press, 2020 Review (Sam Rowlands) Book Review Obstacle Course 28052020
Browne K, Calkin S (eds.) After Repeal: Rethinking Abortion Politics. London: Zed Books, 2020. Review (Sam Rowlands) Book Review – After Repeal – Rethinking Abortion Politics
Bloomer F, Pierson C, Claudio SE. Reimagining Global Abortion Politics: A Social Justice Perspective. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2020 (publication date: 1 June 2020)
Sethna C, Davis G (eds). Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Review (Sam Rowlands) Book Review – Abortion Across Borders
Grimes DA, Brandon LG. Every Third Woman in America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation. Carolina Beach, NC, USA: Daymark Publishing, 2014.
Rowlands, S (ed). Abortion Care. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Book Review
Paul M, Lichtenberg S, Borgatta L, et al. (eds). Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Brien J, Fairbairn I. Pregnancy and Abortion Counselling. London, UK: Routledge, 1996.