Founded in 2008, Abortion Care Network (ACN) is the national association for independent community-based, abortion care providers and their allies. Together we work to ensure the rights of all people to experience respectful, dignified abortion care. Independent abortion providers care for the majority of people seeking abortion care – often serving individuals and families in the most rural parts
of our nation and those with the least financial resources. Our members are local providers including small business owners, non-profit clinics, women’s health centers, physicians’ offices and hospitals, as well as academics, journalists and advocates all working to bring the highest quality abortion care to communities throughout the United States. We are the only organization in the nation dedicated to the unique needs of independent abortion care providers and the communities they serve. ACN is also the driving force behind the movement to de-stigmatize and normalize the abortion experience – for abortion care providers as well as individuals and communities. ACN is unique in that we provide our members more than just educational, logistical or advocacy resources. We believe that the most effective way to support providers long-term is to ensure that they are accepted and recognized as an essential and integral part of the world that surrounds them. Other groups may be building tactical or physical walls to keep a clinic safe, but ACN instead focuses on bringing down the barriers that keep abortion care providers viewed as outsiders. We are building a network of local and national advocates and supporters who will reintegrate abortion services, the people who offer them and the people who have abortions into the fabric of our own communities. A tapestry where abortion care is accepted and commonplace rather than hidden and specialized. In the end, we believe this is essential to keeping high-quality abortion care accessible.
