Mississippi House Bill 695, which would OUTLAW Certified Professional Midwives and deny women access to their care, needs to be stopped TODAY!
If you live in or have midwifery or doula clients in Mississippi, start making calls and sending emails to your STATE SENATORS ONLY and forward this page to anyone you know who lives in the state (calls can be made to home and office numbers both).
Mississippi residents can find out who their State Senator is here:
http://www.capitolconnect.com/demoassoc1/legislatorsearch.aspx
It is particularly important that members of the Senate Public Health committee (listed below) hear from their constituents, telling them to vote NO on HB 695 and that you do NOT support making Certified Professional Midwives, who are specially trained to deliver babies in out-of-hospital settings, illegal.
The bill, which includes stiff penalties for ANY midwife practicing who is not a nurse-midwife and which repeals the current exemption that midwives have from Mississippi’s medical practice act, has already sailed through the Mississippi House, so urgent action is needed TODAY.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2010/pdf/history/HB/HB0695.xml
For all the details: http://www.thebigpushformidwives.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=enews.signup
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