SafeAccess
Globally, nearly one in three pregnancies end in abortion. But not everyone has a safe choice. We launched SafeAccess to support frontline implementers and advocates to help change this.
Around the world, 40% of women live in countries where abortion is banned, restricted or inaccessible. Sometimes abortion is heavily criminalised, often it’s just too difficult to access.
Restrictions on abortion drive women to difficult and dangerous decisions. The World Health Organization estimates that around half of all abortions that take place globally are unsafe, with millions of people denied access to safe abortion care. Every year, around 39,000 women die as a result, and millions more are hospitalised. This is unacceptable, and it is preventable.
Collaborating to support SafeAccess to abortion
The global pro-choice community has a significant role to play in changing this course. By collaborating across the sector, we can support providers to scale up solutions that work. But to do so, we need to ensure that our learnings are documented and shared, including in ways that are accessible and tangible for frontline practitioners and advocates.
That’s why, in 2019, MSI Reproductive Choices partnered with the Safe Abortion Action Fund, Ipas, IPPF and others to launch the SafeAccess Hub, now housed on the MSI website, sharing evidence-based, best practice guidance for implementers and advocates on abortion and post-abortion care.
With growing opposition to reproductive rights, it is more important than ever that our community comes together in support of the right to choose. As implementing organisations, we can share our own lessons on what works, with the hope that those on the frontline can use these learnings to expand access to life-saving care.
Explore SafeAccess resources below and view all in our latest section.
Access for Everybody – resources for inclusive services
Access a suite of resources from Ipas and MSI on delivering disability-inclusive abortion and contraceptive care.
Abortion language guide
A guide to help you use your voice for choice, by speaking about abortion in an accurate and stigma-free way.
Blog: 5 ways we can innovate to expand access to abortion
In the year 2030, there could be 43 million unsafe abortions (the estimated trajectory) or there could be zero—if we act now. Here’s how we could get there.
Videos: Abortion explained
A selection of videos from IPPF and partners explaining a medical and surgical abortion, and what’s needed to self-manage a medical abortion safely.
Medical abortion via pharmacies – the evidence
A systematic review of the evidence on the provision of medical abortion by pharmacies and drug sellers in low- and middle-income countries.
Abortion Care: Frontline to Future report
A report sharing what MSI has learned from providing abortion to millions of women globally, and how we can work together to end unsafe abortion by 2030.
My Body, My Voice: Women’s views on abortion care
MSI’s report provides insights and feedback from over 1,900 safe abortion clients from across Africa, Asia and Latin America
Blog: 5 Essentials to Safely Self-Manage a Medical Abortion
In this blog, we share five key insights informed by our work around the world and the evidence on how to support safe self-management of abortion.
MSI’s Guiding Framework on Abortion
In response to a changing landscape, and building on our own frontline experience, we engaged global, national and community partners, providers and experts to inform our new direction and Guiding Framework.