NAF members include private and non-profit clinics, Planned Parenthood affiliates, women's health centers, physicians' offices, and hospitals who together perform approximately half of the abortions in the U.S. and Canada each year.
[1] First published in 1996 and revised annually, the CPGs distill a large body of medical knowledge into guidelines developed by consensus, based on rigorous review of relevant literature and known patient outcomes.
[3] NAF launched a Canadian Public Policy and Outreach Program on May 16, 2006, with the support of Senator Lucie Pépin, Federal MP and former Minister of State for Health Carolyn Bennett, and NDP Status of Women Critic Irene Mathyssen.
The website also has other resources, including information on referrals and how to obtain financial support for travel expenses, after-treatment supplies, child care and various other needs.
The public transit system had previously allowed advertisements from a church-funded organization which called for people to have adoptions over abortions.
The CMP had earlier released heavily edited videos, which purported to show that Planned Parenthood had been inappropriately selling fetal tissue.
[20][21] Former union leader Vicki Saporta served in the position from 1995 to 2019; she announced her retirement in 2018 after being accused of not taking action when an employee was guilty of sexual harassment.