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The Society of Family Planning (SFP) is an international non-profit professional organization established in 2005 specializing in "abortion and contraception science" composed of physicians, nurses, sociologists, public health practitioners and trainees in these fields. The majority of member physicians include specialists of obstetrics and gynecology, family medicine, and adolescent medicine.
Plan C is a non-profit organization and campaign that provides educational resources and information to increase access to medication abortion in the United States. It was founded in 2015 by Francine Coeytaux, Elisa Wells, and Amy Merrill as a project under the fiscal sponsorship of the National Women's Health Network.
Diana Greene Foster is an American demographer and professor of obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She uses quantitative models to understand how reproductive health policies impacts women's lives and to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies.
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