AOM Position Statements & Submissions
Policy and position statements
Position statements endorsed by the AOM
AOM policy and position statements
- April 16, 2025: Statement on midwife provision of abortion care and reproductive justice
- April 4, 2025: Indigenous Midwifery Advisory Circle (IMAC) statement on reproductive choice and reproductive justice
- March 27, 2024: Racial justice position statement
- March 27, 2023: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion position statement
- April 23, 2021: Statement on government increased police authority for COVID-19 (PDF, 113 KB)
- April 3, 2020: Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment in Ontario (PDF, 220 KB)
- February 27, 2020: Wet'suwet'en solidarity statement (PDF, 67 KB)
- April 25, 2019: Bullying position statement
- April 2018: Intersex child autonomy
- June 2017: Informed choice & eye prophylaxis
- June 2017: Prenatal genetic screening
- October 2015: Gender inclusivity & human rights
- Keeping Birth Close to Home (under review by AOM board)
- Maintaining primary care for clients accessing induction, augmentation and epidural
- Midwives & Interprofessional Care (under review by AOM board)
Joint policy and position statements
- March 29, 2023: AOM and other primary care associations united in speaking out against cuts to uninsured program (PDF, 187 KB)
- February 2005: Professional relations between midwives and physicians in Ontario (PDF)
Position statements endorsed by the AOM
- July 2022: NICM's position statement on evacuation for birth (PDF)
- July 2022: NICM's position statement on Indigenous child apprehensions (PDF)
- July 2022: NICM's position statement on forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous peoples (PDF)
Submissions to government
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May 24, 2024: Proposed Amendments to Ontario Regulation 45/22 (General) under the Laboratory and Specimen Collection Centre Licensing Act (PDF, 398 KB)
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January 31, 2024: 2024 Pre-Budget Consultation Submission (Jan. 31, 2024; PDF, 361 KB)
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November 23. 2023: Proposed Regulatory Amendments to O. Reg. 884/93 (Designated Drugs) made under the
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April 4, 2023: Letter to ADM and Chief of Nursing and Professional Practice re: modernizing regulations governing midwifery prescribing (PDF, 229 KB)
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February 23, 2023: Head Midwives in Ontario call on Health Minister to amend drug and lab regulation for midwives (PDF, 156 KB)
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February 23, 2022: Response to Ministry Consultation on College Regulation Changes (PDF)
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August 25, 2022: Letter to Minister of Health re: midwifery role in addressing urgent human resource pressures (PDF, 293 KB)
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December 8, 2021: Letter to Attorney General re: jury exemptions for midwives Dec 8 2021 (PDF, 150 KB)
- January 2020: Pre-budget Consultations 2020 Submission to Ontario’s Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (PDF)
- June 17, 2019: Hearing screening (PDF)
- Submission regarding Premier's Council on Improving Health Care and Ending Hallway Medicine (PDF)
- April 2019: Submission to the Ministry of Labour, pay transparency reporting requirements consultation (PDF)
- April 2, 2019: Bill 74: Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on The People's Health Care Act, 2019 (PDF)
- April 2018: Bill 3: Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on the Pay Transparency Act (PDF)
- May 2017: Bill 87 submission (PDF)
- August 25. 2017: Draft professional standards for midwives (PDF)
- September 12, 2017: Lab funding submissions: Amendment to Regulation 552 (PDF)
- Leveraging midwifery in Ontario's health-care transformation (PDF)
- Leveraging Midwives to Strengthen Maternal and Newborn Primary Care in Ontario (submission on Patients First legislation; PDF)
- October 3, 2017: Medical Sonographer Regulation (PDF)
- October 13, 2017: Specimen Collection Regulation (PDF)
- January 15th, 2016: Ontario Midwives on Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Submission to the Wage Gap Strategy Steering Committee (PDF)
- Pre-budget Submission 2019 to Ontario’s Steering Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (PDF)
Submissions to stakeholders
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February 3, 2022: AOM Response to CMO Review of ADR Process (PDF, 264 KB)
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September 1, 2021: AOM letter to CMO re: SBA decision-making (PDF, 243 KB)
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May 6, 2021: Joint letter with NICM to Ministry of Colleges and Universities regarding Laurentian closure of MEP (PDF, 205 KB)
- April 29, 2021: AOM advocates for improvements to HRTO (PDF, 285.5 KB)
- April 16, 2021: Letter to Laurentian University president regarding future of Midwifery Education Program (PDF, 238 KB)
- January 16, 2020: Letter to the CMO re: delaying rescinding the CTCS (PDF, 410 KB)
- July 15, 2020: AOM submission to OMA-MOH Primary Care Working Group (PCWG) (PDF, 377 KB)
- September 14, 2020: AOM feedback to CMO proposed Scope of Practice Guide (PDF, 344 KB)
- November 22, 2019: CMO letter re Proposed Changes to the Designated Drugs and Substances Regulation (PDF)
- November 16, 2019: Letter re PHIPA Modernization (PDF)
- June 3, 2019: Letter to Coroner re early discharge (PDF)
- December 19, 2017: CMO letter re SBA decision-making (PDF)
- June 20, 2019: CMO letter on mandatory reporting (PDF)
- June 14, 2019: CMO letter re oxytocin (PDF)
- June 3, 2019: Letter to Coroner (PDF)
- December 19, 2019: Letter to College of Midwives of Ontario on Draft Professional Standards (PDF)
- August 10, 2017: HIPA Regulations Preconsultation Feedback (PDF)
- April 13, 2017: HQO VBAC Quality Standard (PDF)
- February 24, 2017: Letter to College of Midwives of Ontario on Regulation Changes (PDF)