Throughout the judicial assault on mifepristone, the U.S. FDA has consistently affirmed its safety for use in medication abortion and miscarriage management. Now, our organizations ask the FDA to permanently drop the remaining burdensome REMS requirements. bit.ly/4etSKqt

In the two years since the catastrophic #Dobbs decision stripped countless people of access to abortion, the attacks have not slowed, the losses have not stopped, and the suffering has not abated. Read our statement: bit.ly/4exrxmR

Angela Hawkins, MD, FACOG, joined Rep. Barbara Lee and Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost to support Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General’s gun violence advisory and stress the need to invest in research and strategies to avoid gun-related injuries and deaths. ACOG’s statement on the advisory: bit.ly/3zll5zr

While we’re relieved that stabilizing emergency abortion care remains available in Idaho for now, patients and physicians need real, long-term protections for evidence-based essential reproductive health care. Read our statement on today’s #SCOTUS decision:bit.ly/3L7nhNi

Iowa’s six-week abortion ban is a devastating blow to reproductive health care. Most people don’t even know they’re pregnant at six weeks; many Iowans will miss their window for care without realizing it. Legislative interference in medicine must stop.

🙌🏾"Advocacy is part and parcel of being an #obgyn. The way in which medicine has been structured for a very long time has not always advantaged women, people seeking obstetric and gynecologic care, and marginalized populations." acog.org/news/news-arti…

A doctor should never fear that caring for a patient may be a felony. Don’t miss this powerful Frontline Voices story from Beth Rutherford, MD, FACOG, on the heartbreaking intersection of medical care and legal complexities in the current landscape: bit.ly/4eVivAm

One year after the repeal of affirmative action, Michelle J. Wang, MD; Victoria Wang, MD; Yeon Woo Lee, MD; and Kenneth H. Kim, MD, FACOG, call on the medical community to champion diversity and inclusion. Read their powerful insights: bit.ly/4cNdGHR

Iowa’s six-week abortion ban fails Iowans who will need evidence-based care now and in the future. ACOG condemns any measure that robs patients of control over their own lives, bodies, and health and restricts access to necessary care.

First-year postgrad Kristin Drew, MD, shares how completing medical school amid the upheaval caused by the Dobbs decision helped shape her advocacy for compassionate care. Read her submission: bit.ly/4djLw7d

So proud of my wonderful partner Dr. Jennifer Celebrezze. She was part of a roundtable on Maternal Mortality with champion Congresswomen Rep. Summer Lee and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. SMFM ACOG Action ACOG District III

This is good news for the patients who will be able to access care for now, but these decisions belong between a patient and their trusted clinician. Legislative interference in the practice of medicine is dangerous.

Today’s important report from Rep. Frank Pallone and Energy & Commerce Democrats details in clear relief the ways in which abortion bans are wreaking havoc when it comes to critical medical training for the next generation of #obgyns. Read our statement: bit.ly/4doMxL7

Our new ACOG CEO Sandra Brooks, MD, MBA, FACOG, and Secretary Camille A. Clare MD MPH are checking in to talk about equity, diversity, and the future of the specialty at the #obgyn section meeting of the National Medical Association! #NMANYC24

ACOG is relieved to see that Montana’s parental consent law, which makes a minor’s right to receive abortion care contingent upon a parent’s consent, has been struck down. Essential health care must be available to everyone who needs it, regardless of their age.

Georgia Rooks Dwelle, MD, established GA's first general and obstetrical hospital for Black patients. Her innovation was vital to Black women of Atlanta in need of equitable care and served as a model for birthing hospitals to come. Learn more: bit.ly/4ed6Qvt #WIMMonth

We shouldn’t have to say this: Abortion after birth is not real. Lies that abortions occur after delivery are cruel to families in need of essential health care and dangerous to clinicians that provide care.