About: Our Mission

Physicians have not traditionally engaged in the public debate over personal choice, family planning, abortion, teenage pregnancy, and sexuality education issues. Yet it is doctors who deliver (or don’t deliver) these services and provide critical information on these issues to their patients on a daily basis.

PRCH exists to ensure that all people have the knowledge, access to quality services, and freedom to make their own reproductive health decisions.  PRCH mobilizes pro-choice physicians to promote, educate, and advocate about the importance of comprehensive reproductive healthcare. 

Our Members

A large number of our physician members practice in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, but many are pediatricians, fertility doctors, cardiologists, neurologists, radiologists, and others. They belong to other medical associations but look to PRCH to voice their concerns regarding reproductive choice and health. Click here for information on how to become a physician member.

Our Role

PRCH, in turn, works with medical and women’s health organizations that share an interest in expanding and improving the medical options and quality of services available to American women and their families. We aim to enhance and complement, not duplicate, services provided by these groups.

Our History

PRCH was founded in 1992 by a small committee of concerned physicians in New York City, where we opened our first national office in 1995. We also maintain an organizational presence in San Francisco and Washington, DC, which enables us to conduct our recruiting, organizing, advocacy, and educational activities at the grassroots level. The organization is steered by a Board of Directors comprised of leading physicians in reproductive healthcare, as well as resident and medical student representatives.

Our Programs

PRCH has two interconnecting program divisions that respond to the needs of our physician members and the public for information and services: External Affairs and Education, Research, and Training. These divisions provide opportunities for physicians to become more involved in the public discussion on contraception and abortion, to educate doctors about their responsibility to do so, to monitor state and national legislation tied to our mission, to communicate our message to the media, and to expand medical education in reproductive health.