Advocacy Updates

View SMFM'S 2017-2018 Advocacy Agenda here.

April 10, 2018: SMFM writes to Representatives Engel and Strivers and Senator Stabenow in support of the Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act.

April 9, 2018: SMFM joined the CDC Coalition to write to House and Senate Appropriators asking for $8.445 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s programs in the FY 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.

April 3, 2018: SMFM joined Pew Charitable Trusts, March of Dimes and others to support  H.R. 5333, the Over-the-Counter Monograph Safety, Innovation, and Reform Act of 2018, which would would modernize the FDA's system for regulating nonprescription drugs.

April 3, 2018: SMFM signs on to a letter to House and Senate Appropriators asking for $660 million for the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant in the FY2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education & Related Agencies Appropriations bill.

March 27, 2018: SMFM joined the Friends of AHRQ to write to House and Senate Appropriators to request $454 million in budget authority for AHRQ for FY2019.

February 26, 2018: SMFM public comments to PRGLAC Task Force. 

February 16, 2018: SMFM social media statement on gun violence as a national health epidemic. 

January 19, 2018: SMFM issues a statement in response to the Religious Exemption Regulations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

January 17, 2018: SMFM signs on to a letter to Reps. Burgess, Walden, Green, and Pallone in support of bipartisan legislation to update the over-the-counter drug monograph.

View the 2017 Advocacy Archive