Comparing Groups Supporting & Opposing Licensing Of Cpms

The Illinois State Medical Society agrees with lay midwives in opposing HB 226 the Home Birth Safety Act A closer look at the supporters, opponents and beneficiaries of HB226 the Home Birth Safety Act Groups that support the concept of licensing CPMs to improve home birth safety ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

American Public Health Association Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators Association of Women!s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing Black Women!s Health Imperative Chicago Women!s Health Center Childbirth Connection Consumer Reports Doctors for Midwives of Illinois (representing a growing number of physicians, many of whom are academically affiliated professors of medicine, public health, and bio-medical ethics)

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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group Health Disability Advocates Illinois AFL-CIO Illinois Families for Midwifery Illinois Nurses Association Illinois Maternal Child Health Coalition Illinois Public Health Association Illinois Society for Advanced Practice Nursing National Commission on Certifying Agencies National Perinatal Association National Women!s Health Network NorthEastern Illinois Doula Association Our Bodies Ourselves (formerly known the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective) Pew Health Trust Veteran!s Administration WebMD

Groups that oppose the concept of licensing CPMs to improve home birth safety ! !

Illinois State Medical Society (along with some subspecialty private physician groups) Underground, uncertified lay midwives (who wish to continue practicing without any transparency, without conforming to national midwifery practice standards, and without proving their competency by passing the national board certification exam for CPMs)

Groups that will benefit most by licensing CPMs to improve home birth safety ! ! !

Illinois home birth babies Illinois home birth mothers Illinois home birth families

Please vote YES on HB 226 the Home Birth Safety Act to protect mothers and babies Published by the Coalition for Illinois Midwifery !fu" references available upon request! Contact Colette Bernhard !773" 504#8442 or Vicki Johnson !815" 262#2235 for more information.