HWPP study findings and methods

Quick facts

• Approximately 45% of pregnancies in the United States are unintended, and nearly half of those end in abortion.
• Abortions are safest during the first trimester. Lack of access, however, leads to delays. In 2014, 90% of U.S. counties—home to 39% of U.S. women of childbearing age—lacked an abortion care provider.
• Expanding the abortion care workforce would help—but while abortion care by NPs, CNMs, and PAs is both equally safe and as acceptable to patients as care by MDs, most states allow only physicians to provide abortion.