ACNM Response to ACOG 'Out of Hospital Birth' Policy Statement

• In October 2006, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists published an 'Out of Hospital Birth' policy statement. (The statement is available on their Web site, but only to ACOG members.)

  ACNM Resources:

  Position Statement: Home Birth

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  • According to this description from the ACOG Web site, "[ACOG] Executive Board Statements of Policy...represent a position of the organization, which is binding upon its elected officials and staff in College matters, but not upon the individual Fellows in their medical practices."
    

• On November 21, 2006, ACNM, with eight other organizations, responded to the new ACOG policy. Read the letter. The following organizations signed onto the ACNM letter:
  

• The American Association of Birth Centers also wrote to ACOG in response to the new policy. The AABC letter is here.
  
  
• Article: Are Women Having Too Many C-sections? by Melinda Tuhus, Women's eNews (February 8, 2007)

• Other organizations and individuals have appealed to ACNM to show their support for our response to ACOG. Those organizations and individuals are listed below.
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