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Boston Globe, November 8, 2017

Dr. Sandy Chapnick interviews Julie Brill, IBLC/CCCE, and Joyce H. Kimball, CPM

In October 2016, the Diane Rehm show discussed a recent study regarding the increasing U.S. maternal mortality rate. I listened and took some notes, below, but here’s what shocked and saddened me: The rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. is much higher than in other countries. In Britain the maternal mortality rate is 6.7%/100,000 […]

The proposed midwifery bill “An Act Relative to out of hospital birth” HB#1189/SB#1206 says that there will be an ACOG ob/gyn on the board of midwifery. “Section 261…board members shall be…a licensed physician who is an obstetrician certified by the American Congress of Obstretrics and Gynecology and who has had professional experience working with Certified […]

If you want to license home birth midwives, ok. But the proposed legislation “An Act Relative to Out of Hospital Birth” House bill # 1189, House docket # 1240; Senate bill # 1206, Senate docket # 567 has non-midwives choose the board of midwifery that will “develop rules and regulations” on home birth midwives and […]

From the licensing and regulation of American granny midwives out of existence, to the Skype midwives, traveling midwives, women who birth unassisted, and women who cross state lines to birth with whom and how they want, there is 100 years of evidence that licensing midwives restricts women’s birth choices. The evidence shows that the 2000 […]

With midwives, an old tradition is reborn