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)
●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)
●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on medical abortion (2016)
United States
●National Abortion Federation (NAF): Clinical policy guidelines for abortion care (2022)
●SFP: Interim clinical recommendations on self-managed abortion (2022)
●ACOG and SFP: Practice bulletin on medication abortion up to 70 days of gestation (2020)
●SFP: Clinical recommendations on contraception after surgical abortion (2019)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin for prevention of infection after gynecologic procedures (2018)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin on second-trimester abortion (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: 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
●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Best practice statement for the use of misoprostol in obstetrics and gynaecology (2022, updated 2024)
●Queensland Health: Maternity and neonatal clinical guideline on termination of pregnancy (2019, amended 2022)
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