Women’s Perspectives: Trust in the Reproductive Health Care System and Key Sources of Information

Highlights

A nationally representative sample of women in the United States polled in March 2025 by the AAMC Center for Health Justice revealed that:

  • A large majority of women (84%) trust the health care system (defined as clinicians, hospitals and other health care facilities, and insurance plans). However, Gen Zers, millennials (born 1981-2012) (80%), and Black women (75%) expressed less trust compared with Gen Xers, baby boomers (born 1946-1980) (86%), and white women (84%).
  • Most women (81%) trust reproductive health policies developed by the medical community, but only two-thirds of women (65%) said the same about such policies developed by insurance companies.
  • Community-based organizations are the most trusted sources of reproductive health information (81%), while social media platforms are the least trusted (41%). 

Learn more about this study in this recent article here.