Society guideline links: Pregnancy termination

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Abortion care guideline (2022)

●WHO: Recommendations on self-care interventions – Self-management of medical abortion, update (2022)

●International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO): Statement on addressing barriers to safe abortion (2021)

●FIGO: Statement on improving access to abortion beyond 12 weeks of pregnancy (2021)

●FIGO: Statement on the ethical responsibilities in post-abortion care (2019)

●FIGO: Updated recommendations for misoprostol used alone in gynecology and obstetrics (2017)

Canada

●National Abortion Federation (NAF): Clinical policy guidelines for abortion care (2022)

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaceologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline on induced abortion – Surgical abortion and second trimester medical methods (2018)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on medical abortion (2016)

United States

●National Abortion Federation (NAF): Clinical policy guidelines for abortion care (2022)

●Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Clinical considerations for management of severe complications when abortion care is restricted (2022)

●Society of Family Planning (SFP): Clinical recommendations on contraception and abortion care for persons who use substances (2022)

●SFP: Interim clinical recommendations on self-managed abortion (2022)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on access to postabortion contraception (2021)

●SFP: Clinical recommendations for the management of individuals with bleeding or thrombotic disorders undergoing abortion (2021)

●SFP: Clinical recommendations on pain control in surgical abortion part 2 – Moderate sedation, deep sedation, and general anesthesia (2021)

●ACOG and SFP: Practice bulletin on medication abortion up to 70 days of gestation (2020)

●SFP: Clinical recommendations on cervical preparation for dilation and evacuation at 20–24 weeks' gestation (2020)

●SFP: Clinical recommendations on contraception after surgical abortion (2019)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin for prevention of infection after gynecologic procedures (2018)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines pain control in surgical abortion part 1 — Local anesthesia and minimal sedation (2018)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines on cervical dilation before first-trimester surgical abortion (<14 weeks' gestation) (2016)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines on cervical preparation for second-trimester surgical abortion prior to 20 weeks' gestation (2014)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on second-trimester abortion (2013)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines for the interruption of nonviable pregnancies of 24–28 weeks' gestation using medical methods (2013)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines for the management of postabortion hemorrhage (2013)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines on surgical abortion prior to 7 weeks of gestation (2013)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines on first-trimester abortion in women with medical conditions (2012)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines for the prevention of infection after induced abortion (2011)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines on labor induction abortion in the second trimester (2011)

●SFP: Clinical guidelines for the induction of fetal demise before abortion (2010)

United Kingdom

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): Best practice in abortion care (2015, updated 2022)

●RCOG: Best practice in post-abortion care (2015, updated 2022)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on abortion care (2021)

●NICE: Guideline on abortion care (2019)

●RCOG/Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH)/British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP): Clinical guidelines for early medical abortion at home – England (2019)

●RCOG: Evidence-based clinical guideline for the care of women requesting induced abortion, 3rd edition (2011, updated 2018)

●RCOG: Report on termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality in England, Scotland and Wales (2010)

Australia–New Zealand

●Queensland Health: Maternity and neonatal clinical guideline on termination of pregnancy (2019, amended 2022)

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Best practice statement for the use of misoprostol in obstetrics and gynaecology (2021)

●RANZCOG: Abortion (2019)

●RANZCOG: Late abortion (2019)

●RANZCOG: The use of mifepristone for medical abortion (2019)