Reproductive health care advocates are modifying the old adage "don't get angry, get organized" by going local.

After weathering eight years of conservative attacks, the pro-choice community held high hopes that the Obama Administration, bolstered by democratic majorities in Congress, would signal an end to partisan bickering over federal funding for comprehensive care and the tedious national obsession with abortion.

With that optimism scattering to the four winds of manufactured political controversy, the National Institute for Reproductive Health is organizing the Urban Initiative for Reproductive Heath, four regional urban summits to bring providers, policymakers, activists, funders and legislators together to share effective program strategies and localized incidence data.

"There is a limitless potential to create change for women's health at a local level," said NIRH president Kelli Conlin at a Sept. 23 kick-off event in Denver. "What people here realize, much more clearly than people out East or in Washington, is that not everything has to be a knock-down, drag-out fight. You can get things done without burning down the house."

Denver summit co-host Emilie Ailts of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado moderated the opening plenary session on how urbanization and regional political shifts signal new demographic groups the pro-choice community should be targeting for support. Though electoral demographics may not be a subject that's typically top of mind among reproductive health advocates it's an especially savvy tactic to identify issue reframing opportunities with new audiences — another hot topic of conversation among participants.

One of the more interesting examples of this new thinking... Continue reading this article at RH Reality Check.