9. BECOMING A PROVIDER, ADVOCATE AND LEADER

^{Updated 2025 by Meera MD; Nikia Grayson DNP, MPH, CNM, FNP-C; Divya Bhatia MD}

This chapter is designed to aid clinicians who desire to gain additional training and become an abortion provider in their post-training practice. It offers an overview of training and practice opportunities in clinical and advocacy work, leadership development, interviewing strategies, next steps, and mechanisms for ongoing support.

Chapter Learning Objectives

Following completion of this chapter, you should be better able to:

• Identify training, post-training, and fellowship opportunities to build and maintain your skills as well as expand access to reproductive health services
• Reflect on your personal identities and considerations relevant to becoming an abortion provider
• Center and uplift training opportunities, networking, mentorship, and support for clinicians of racial, ethnic, and gender-diverse backgrounds
• Consider avenues for experience in reproductive health, rights and justice advocacy

Readings / Resources

• Innovating Education in Reproductive Health (IERH):
  • Advancing Health Equity
  • Snapshots: Success stories from clinicians who have incorporated abortion services in ways that have worked for them
• SisterSong Women of Color for Reproductive Justice – https://www.sistersong.net/
• Physicians for Reproductive Health: https://prh.org/resources/
• Clinicians in Abortion Care: https://prochoice.org/providers/ciac/
• Reproductive Freedom for All: https://reproductivefreedomforall.org/take-action/
• Urge: https://urge.org/act-now/
• If/When/How: https://ifwhenhow.org/resources/
• Center for Reproductive Rights: https://reproductiverights.org/
• Related Chapter Content:
  • Supplemental Ch 10: Becoming a Trainer
  • Supplemental Ch 11: Practice Integration