AOM Position Statements & Submissions
Policy and position statements
- Racial justice position statement
- Statement on government increased police authority for COVID-19 (PDF, 113 KB)
- Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment in Ontario (PDF, 220 KB)
- Wet'suwet'en solidarity statement (PDF, 67 KB)
- Bullying position statement
- Intersex child autonomy
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion position statement
- Gender inclusivity & human rights
- Informed choice & eye prophylaxis
- 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)
- Prenatal genetic screening
- Professional relations between midwives and physicians in Ontario
- Reproductive choice
Position statements endorsed by the AOM
- NACM's position statement on evacuation for birth (PDF)
- NACM's position statement on Indigenous child apprehensions (PDF)
- NACM's position statement on forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous peoples (PDF)
Submissions to government
- Pre-budget Consultations 2020 Submission to Ontario’s Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (PDF)
- Hearing screening (PDF)
- Submission regarding Premier's Council on Improving Health Care and Ending Hallway Medicine (PDF)
- Submission to the Ministry of Labour, pay transparency reporting requirements consultation (PDF)
- Bill 74: Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on The People's Health Care Act, 2019 (PDF)
- Bill 3: Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on the Pay Transparency Act (PDF)
- Bill 87 submission (PDF)
- Draft professional standards for midwives (PDF)
- 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)
- Medical Sonographer Regulation (PDF)
- Specimen Collection Regulation (PDF)
- 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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AOM letter to CMO re: SBA decision-making (PDF, 243 KB)
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Joint letter with NACM to Ministry of Colleges and Universities regarding Laurentian closure of MEP (PDF, 205 KB)
- AOM advocates for improvements to HRTO (PDF, 285.5 KB)
- Letter to Laurentian University president regarding future of Midwifery Education Program (PDF, 238 KB)
- Letter to the CMO re: delaying rescinding the CTCS (PDF, 410 KB)
- AOM feedback to CMO proposed Scope of Practice Guide (PDF, 344 KB)
- AOM submission to OMA-MOH Primary Care Working Group (PCWG) (PDF, 377 KB)
- CMO letter re Proposed Changes to the Designated Drugs and Substances Regulation (PDF)
- Letter re PHIPA Modernization (PDF)
- Letter to Coroner re early discharge (PDF)
- CMO letter re SBA decision-making (PDF)
- CMO letter on mandatory reporting (PDF)
- CMO letter re oxytocin (PDF)
- Letter to Coroner (PDF)
- Letter to College of Midwives of Ontario on Draft Professional Standards (PDF)
- HQO VBAC Quality Standard (PDF)
- HIPA Regulations Preconsultation Feedback (PDF)
- Letter to College of Midwives of Ontario on Regulation Changes (PDF)