Midwifery has played a transformative role within the healthcare system: not just in providing excellent care to many women, but in empowering women to be able to better control their overall reproductive and sexual lives. As well as being a innovative profession and crucial part of the spectrum of women-centred services, it has also always been part of a wider reproductive rights movement. I was particularly pleased to do a workshop with the Diversity Work Group of the Association of Ontario Midwives on equity-focused planning and impact assessment. As with all these workshops we work through concrete planning scenarios: in this case, the group had identified two scenarios around ensuring that women who face language and other barriers are not prevented from getting the midwifery care they need and on community engagement to shape Association policy initiatives.