Through its network of birth activists and professionals, the Big Push for Midwives Campaign meets its PushStates where they are, providing tools and support no matter where they stand along the continuum of organizing their advocacy efforts. JOIN YOUR STATE GROUP!
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In 23 states, as well as in the District of Columbia and two U.S. Territories, Puerto Rico and Guam, Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) are at risk of criminal prosecution for practicing medicine or nursing without a license, which drives the practice of midwifery underground and creates barriers to access for women seeking maternity care.
Citizens and birth-advocacy organizations are working together, with the help of the Big Push for Midwives Campaign, to effect change at the organizational, community, and policy-making level by pushing to educate lawmakers about the triple-bottom-line benefits when they choose to pass laws licensing CPMs in every one of these jurisdictions and to incorporate them as maternity care providers at the state and federal level.
The Big Push is a resource for PushStates and Territories to help parse the issues, whether they are working at their Statehouse to pass a bill into law, or PUSHing a state agency to change old or restrictive midwife practice rules. Learn how The Big Push is providing support services and help for the pushing.
As midwifery grows and is modernized across the PushNation, The Big Push for Midwives Campaign and its network of state organizations are working to create a clear path to Certified Professional Midwives for families across the United States. Together, midwives and mothers are working to increase access to CPM birth options, and further remove barriers to evidence-based maternity care.
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