The Digital Defense Fund (https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy) offers advice on how to secure your phone and computer from online surveillance.
New York Healthcare providers can contact NY State’s Attorney General’s Office Pro Bono Task Force Abortion Hotline (https://ag.ny.gov/reproductivehealth) to ask legal questions or get guidance around abortion laws. You can call the hotline directly at (212) 899-5567.
The National Advocates for Pregnant Women’s Confronting Pregnancy Criminalization site (https://www.nationaladvocatesforpregnantwomen.org/confronting-pregnancy-criminaization/) offers several guidelines and a webinar to help educate and provide practical tools to healthcare providers and medical examiners.
Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare (TEACH) offers abortion care training for clinicians. The 7th edition of their Abortion Training Curriculum (https://www.teachtraining.org/training-tools/abortion-training-curriculum/) is available as a website or PDF.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides guidance on disclosing information relating to productive healthcare (https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/phi-reproductive-health/index.html) including which disclosures are permitted and which are required.
You can copy and paste these search strategies into the search bar for the appropriate database. Concepts can be connected using Boolean operators (AND/OR/NOT). For example, you can conduct a broad search for self-care and abortion by combining those search strategies with an AND:
("Abortion, Induced"[Mesh] OR Abortion*[tiab] OR "Embryotom*"[tiab] OR "Abortifacient*"[tiab]) AND ("Self-Management"[Mesh] OR Self-manag*[tiab] OR Self-care[tiab] OR Self-Treat*[tiab] OR Self-nurtur*[tiab] OR Selfmanag*[tiab] OR Selfcare[tiab] OR Selftreat*[tiab] OR Selfnurtur*[tiab])
PubMed Search Strategies (can be used on PubMed or PubMed Central)
Abortion
Focused search strategy: ("Abortion, Induced"[Majr])
Broad search strategy: ("Abortion, Induced"[Mesh] OR Abortion*[tiab] OR "Embryotom*"[tiab] OR "Abortifacient*"[tiab])
Self-Management
Focused search strategy: ("Self-Management"[Majr])
Broad search strategy: ("Self-Management"[Mesh] OR Self-manag*[tiab] OR Self-care[tiab] OR Self-Treat*[tiab] OR Self-nurtur*[tiab] OR Selfmanag*[tiab] OR Selfcare[tiab] OR Selftreat*[tiab] OR Selfnurtur*[tiab])
Abortion Medication
Focused search strategy: ("Abortifacient Agents"[Majr] OR "Mifepristone"[Majr] OR "Misoprostol"[Majr])
Broad search strategy: ("Abortifacient Agents"[Mesh] OR "Mifepristone"[Mesh] OR "Misoprostol"[Mesh] OR "Abortifacient*"[tiab] OR "Abortive Agent*"[tiab] OR "Abortion Agent*"[tiab] OR "Abortive Drug*"[tiab] OR "Abortion Drug*"[tiab] OR "Postconception-Contracept*"[tiab] OR "Mifepristone"[tiab] OR "Korlym"[tiab] OR "Mifeprex"[tiab] OR "Misoprostol"[tiab] OR "Cytotec"[tiab])