Reproductive Health Initiatives and Institutional Change
Explore SMFM’s strategic initiatives to transform reproductive healthcare delivery and policy. This page highlights clinical guidance, institutional change strategies, advocacy efforts, and training tools designed to support equitable access, institutional readiness, and systemic improvements in reproductive health services.
- Statewide and Regional Strategies: Networks and Partnerships for Access (SMFM Webinar, 2023)
- Navigating the Storm: Building Institutional Solutions in the Face of Restrictive Abortion Laws (Blog Post, 2023)
- Corporate Citizenship and Institutional Responses Post-Dobbs (NEJM, 2023)
- Abortion is Essential Health Care (ACOG)
- Questions to Help Hospital Systems Support Physicians in the Post-Roe Legal Landscape (ACOG, 2022; updated 2023)
- Understanding and Navigating Medical Emergency Exceptions in Abortion Bans (ACOG, 2022)
- Practice Management Resources (ACOG “Abortion is Essential Health Care” Series)
- Access to Care During Obstetric Emergencies (ACOG, 2025)
- SMFM Abortion Care Messaging Guidance (2024)
- SMFM Abortion Care Talking Points (2024)
- SMFM Language Matters (2024)
- Demonstrating Care: Evidence-Based Messaging Guidance for Physicians (University of Michigan, 2024)
- A Critical Examination of Abortion Terminology (SMFM Special Statement, 2023)
- Building Evidence-Based Skills for Conversations About Abortion (ACOG)
- Guide to Language and Abortion (ACOG, 2024)
- Abortion Nomenclature (SFP Committee Statement, SMFM Endorsed, 2023)
- Language Matters: SMFM Webinar on Abortion Terminology & Communication (2023)
- A Critical Examination of Abortion Terminology (CREOGs Over Coffee Podcast, 2023)
- How to Talk About Abortion (ACOG “Abortion is Essential Health Care” Series)
- Shape the Public Discourse (ACOG “Abortion is Essential Health Care” Series)
- Guide to Combating Misinformation About Reproductive Health (ACOG)
- Toolkit for Combating Abortion Myths (ACOG)
- Physicians for Reproductive Health: Journalist Resources on Abortion
- Lexicon for First-Trimester Ultrasound (Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, SMFM Endorsed, 2024)
- Values Clarification Workshop (Reproductive Health Access Project, 2024)
- The Abortion Option: A Values Clarification Guide for Health Professionals (NAF, 2005)
- Abortion Attitude Transformation Toolkit (IPAS, 2008)
- Caring for Challenging Patients (Video Module, Innovating Education in Reproductive Health)
- Teaching Professionalism Through Case-Based Values Clarification (Innovating Education in Reproductive Health)
- Teaching Professionalism for Abortion Care (Innovating Education in Reproductive Health)
- Physicians’ Professional Responsibilities in Abortion Care (Innovating Education in Reproductive Health)
- Abortion Policy (ACOG, 2025)
- Legislative Interference with Patient Care (ACOG, 2025)
- Abortion is Essential Healthcare (SFP Position Statement, 2025)
- Access to Abortion Care (SMFM Position Statement, 2024)
- Preserving Access to Care Through Title X (ACOG, 2024)
- Opposition to Criminalization During Pregnancy & Postpartum (ACOG, 2024)
- Institutional Support for Ob-Gyns (ACOG, 2024)
- Gestational Duration Limits in Abortion Policy (SFP, 2024)
- Abortion Policy (ACOG, 2022)
- Statement on “Personhood” Measures (ACOG, 2022)
- Opposition to Criminalization of Self-Managed Abortion (ACOG, 2022)
- Improving Access to Mifepristone (ACOG, 2018)
- Restrictions to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care (ACOG, 2018)
- Decriminalization of Self-Induced Abortion (ACOG, 2017)
- Widespread Opposition to Abortion Bans (UCLA Law Coalition)