News & Announcements

October 2018

Ibis responds to the Senate’s confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Today, Kelly Blanchard, President, released the statement below in response to the Senate’s confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States. “Like many others across the country, I watched Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation...
September 2018

My Body, My Choice Day of Action

Ibis was proud to be a partner of the #MyBodyMyChoice campaign in South Africa, led by Global Health Strategies . The campaign aims to draw attention to the key barriers to safe abortion using social and community media channels. The campaign held a day of action and march in Johannesburg on...
August 2018

A roadmap for research on self-managed abortion in the United States

Together, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) , Gynuity Health Projects , and Ibis Reproductive Health are proud to release our forward-looking research agenda focused on self-managed and demedicalized abortion in the United States. Media coverage and research data show a...
July 2018

Launch of ASQ Initiative to strengthen and standardize abortion service quality measurement

Metrics for Management , Ibis Reproductive Health, and Ipas have joined forces to launch the Abortion Service Quality (ASQ) Initiative. Launched in April 2018, this three-year project will develop, validate, disseminate, and champion the widespread adoption of a common measure of abortion service...
July 2018

New research shows abortions with support of non-medically trained counselors could offer safe alternative for women in legally-restrictive contexts

A new study published by Ibis in BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health shows that a safe-abortion hotline staffed by trained abortion counselors can help women who are more than 12 weeks pregnant to safely self-manage medication abortion. Results suggest that this model has the potential to be as...
June 2018

Ibis responds to NIFLA v Becerra

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Kelly Blanchard, President of Ibis, released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision on NIFLA v. Becerra : “The Supreme Court’s decision to allow crisis pregnancy centers to deliberately mislead women about abortion and...