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Fierce Debate Over Midwifery Licensure

Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check on April 21, 2008 - 9:47am
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Currently, Missouri midwives must have a nursing degree and work under a doctor's supervision -- otherwise, they are committing a felony. A Senate bill under consideration would expand women's birthing options -- but the Missouri State Medical Association is fighting back.


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A New Life For Midwifery Care

Amie Newman, RH Reality Check on February 1, 2008 - 6:31pm
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The Big Push for Midwives campaign seeks to integrate midwifery care into the health care systems of the United States. Activists are pushing against a strong, well-funded medical lobby that has a professional interest in keeping midwives marginalized.


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Birth Options Essential to Reproductive Justice

Erin Wilkins on January 31, 2008 - 9:38am
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The same oppressive cultural mechanisms that restrict women's abilities to make decisions about when to have children also affect their decisions regarding where, how, and with whom to birth those children.


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Mi Compañera

Miriam Pérez, NLIRH on October 30, 2007 - 8:12am
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During a time when abortion politics are the wedge issue dividing the social justice movement, some doulas are working across issue lines to provide women with the support they need for all their decisions.


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