MSI Reproductive Choices

MSI Reproductive Choices
Formation1976
FounderTim Black, Jean Black and Phil Harvey
PurposeTo allow women around the world to choose when they have children.
HeadquartersLondon
ServicesContraception and legal abortion
CEO
Simon Cooke
Staff13,000
Websitewww.msichoices.org

MSI Reproductive Choices, named Marie Stopes International until November 2020,[1] is an international non-governmental organisation providing contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries around the world. MSI Reproductive Choices as an organisation lobbies in favour of access to abortion, and provides a variety of sexual and reproductive healthcare services including advice, vasectomies, and abortions in the UK and other countries where it is legal to do so. It is based in London and is a registered charity under English law.[2]

In 2015 there were an estimated 21 million women around the world using a method of contraception provided by Marie Stopes International. The organisation claims that in 2015 the services that it averted 6.3 million unintended pregnancies, 4 million unsafe abortions and 18,100 maternal deaths.[3]

The organisation's core services include family planning; safe abortion and post-abortion care; maternal and child health care, including safe delivery and obstetrics; diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections; and HIV/AIDS prevention.[4]

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  2. ^ "MARIE STOPES INTERNATIONAL, registered charity no. 265543". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  3. ^ "Global Impact Report 2015". Marie Stopes International. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Global Impact Report 2012 Reaching the Under served" (PDF). Marie Stopes International. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2013.