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Illinois restricts birth freedom, criminalizes professional midwifery care

3/11/2015 - The state of Illinois is unkind to health freedom, especially for birth choice. In fact, there are very limited choices for giving birth in Illinois. An expectant mother is literally forced to give birth the way the state has mandated. In Illinois, four intelligent birthing options have been pushed...

Midwives improve pregnancy care and birth outcomes: Study

8/29/2013 - They often get looked down upon by conventional OB/GYNs, family physicians and other mainstream doctors, but midwives may actually be better equipped to safely deliver babies than the labor and delivery staff at your average hospital. This is according to a new review recently published in The Cochrane...

UK government tries to shut down independent midwives: Supporters fight back!

3/27/2013 - March 25, 2013 marked a historical day where thousands of midwifery supporters protested a landmark decision which outlaw independent midwifery by October 2013. Women from across the country marched to Westminster House of Commons as part of the Choose Your Midwife, Choose Your Birth campaign in an...

Home Births and Midwives are a Growing Trend

9/23/2010 - St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital's recent ban on midwifery has been met with impassioned community protests at its sister hospital, St. John's Regional Medical Center. In early March, protester signs exclaimed, "St. John's we want our midwives back," and "Our Babies, our Births, our Choice." Critics...

NY midwives lose right to deliver babies

9/21/2010 - It is now illegal for women to give birth at home in New York City, following the closure of the only hospital that supported midwives in the practice. "It's pretty shocking that in a city where you can get anything any hour of the day a person cannot give birth at home with a trained practitioner,"...

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