Abortion Care Today

We are a North Carolina-based research group at Duke University, collaborating with medical and legal professionals to grow public knowledge and bust common myths surrounding pregnancy and abortion care in order to empower all people to make the choices that are right for them. Through our work, our team is dedicated to documenting the ways that abortion care bans are impacting the reproductive care that providers can offer patients. While most of our early interviews are with physicians, we will expand in coming years to include midwives, nurses, doulas, and clinic staff. We are also determined to learn where the medical system is missing the mark, and how patient stories can push clinicians to be better. We invite everyone who comes to our site to visit We Testify, Advocates for Youth, and Abortion Diary to hear these stories first hand. We understand patient storytelling and provider storytelling as key tools that humanize everyone in the reproductive care ecosystem. We hope the provider stories on our site can help the everyday person understand the abortion ban landscape, so everyone has the information they need to push for a better environment for reproductive health care and reproductive justice for all.

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