Thinking BIG About Postabortion Care

The report highlights the importance of addressing the root causes of repeated unintended pregnancies postabortion and provides a roadmap for progress. It identifies key impediments to progress, including inadequate policies, sub-optimally organized services, cost, and lack of supportive cultural context. The report then outlines four priority behaviors that are critical to addressing these impediments, including women seeking care for bleeding in pregnancy, women adopting a modern contraceptive method immediately after treatment for abortion complications, service providers offering comprehensive counseling and voluntary modern contraceptive services, and policymakers establishing clear national policies and guidelines that promote comprehensive postabortion care. The report provides detailed steps for each of these behaviors and identifies key supporting actors and potential strategies needed to enable them.