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Evidence-Informed Facility Standards

ANSIRH researches conducted multiple studies to review and generate evidence to inform conversations about what evidence-informed facility standards should look like for facilities that provide abortions. We based these studies on the premise that standards for abortion-providing facilities should be based on the best available research evidence and should be developed through processes similar to those used to develop facility standards for other – less politically charged – outpatient procedures.

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In the U.S., many states have enacted laws that mandate specific requirements for facilities that provide abortions. We conducted five studies to review and generate evidence to inform conversations about what evidence-informed facility standards should look like. This issue brief summarizes the results of those studies.