Birth in our society has become a political hot topic. http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com/ There are people that believe that you should not have alternate choices in childbirth, and many that would legislate where and with whom you can give birth. We believe that you should be able to make your own health care choices, wither we agree with those choices or not. If you have strong beliefs about birth choices then we would like you to make your voice heard. On this page we will try to keep you informed of current events where your voice will make a difference.

In the State of Utah we just had a Direct Entry Midwifery bill pass the legislature (http://le.utah.gov/~2008/htmdoc/sbillhtm/sb0093s07.htm) and we hope that midwives will seek for licensure. In this bill LDEM’s are licensed to give care to women that have had a former Caesarean Section. We want to make sure that Utah laws are equal for all out of hospital options. This involves changing birthing center rules to allow VBAC’s, LDEM’s, and changing building codes to make building a birth center financially feasible. We will inform you if you can assist us in the endeavor. We hope to have some progress on this by June of this year.

To see midwifery progress on the national level go to: http://thebigpushformidwives.org To know how to contact your legislators go to: http://www.votesmart.org