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Certified Professional Midwives Deliver Safer, Less-Costly Care
FAMILIES SAY "ACCESS TO CPMs NOW"

Grassroots Activists Push State and Federal Advocacy Efforts Into Overdrive

The Big Push for Midwives Campaign is a nationally coordinated campaign to advocate for regulation and licensure of Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and to push back against the attempts of the American Medical Association Scope of Practice Partnership to deny American families access to legal midwifery care.

Through its work with state-level advocates and coalitions, the Big Push for Midwives is helping to forge a new model of U.S. maternity care built on expanding access to out-of-hospital maternity care and CPMs, who provide affordable, quality, community-based care that is proven to reduce costly and preventable interventions as well as the rate of low-birth weight and premature births.


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• JUNE 24 – Last day Pushers can register for PushSummit 2009
• JUNE 1 – Pushers Tell White House How CPMs a Top Priority
• MAY 21 – Issue Briefing on Capitol Hill Shows How We Can Save $9.1 Billion a Year
• APRIL 9 – Pushers Tell Congress How Health Care Reform Must Include Access to CPMs
• APRIL 1 – Idaho Pushes Midwife Movement to the Tipping Point

The Story Of The Bi-Partisan Push For Access To CPMs Is (Finally) Being Told

"One of the strengths of the state-by-state campaign is its diversity, [Katherine] Prown, [Big Push campaign manager] said. 'We're one of the few movements that's succeeded in bringing together pro-life and pro-choice activists, liberal feminists and Christian conservatives,' she said. 'In every state we manage to recruit Republican and Democratic co-sponsors who normally would never be on the same bill together.'"

- Associated Press, by David Crary, Jan. 28, 2009