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WYOMING PUSHED HARD!!
Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal signs into law on March 5, 2010 new legislation to allow Certified Professional Midwives to deliver babies again. The bill, which was signed into law after years of opposition from doctors, establishes a licensing system so Certified Professional Midwives can practice in Wyoming. Supporters of the licensing system say it will give expectant mothers more options for giving birth in out-of-hospital settings such as private homes and free-standing birth centers. Read more here.

Certified Professional Midwives Deliver Safer, Less-Costly Care

Campaign Gaining Ground in Push for Out-of-Hospital Maternity Care Options

The Big Push for Midwives Campaign represents tens of thousands of grassroots advocates in the United States who support expanding access to Certified Professional Midwives and out-of-hospital maternity care. The mission of The Big Push for Midwives is to educate state and national policymakers about the reduced costs and improved outcomes associated with out-of-hospital maternity care and to advocate for expanding access to the services of Certified Professional Midwives, who are specially trained to provide it.

The Big Push is meeting the needs of moms and dads in all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico who are working tirelessly to push back against the attempts of the American Medical Association and the American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists to deny American families access to more birth options and access to midwives' care in out-of-hospital settings.

American families need the affordable, quality, community-based care of Certified Professional Midwives now.

The Big Push helps our Pushers to do what they need to do: talk with the media more often, mobilize their grassroots to act more quickly, and educate policymakers more effectively. Please donate today to help provide access to the tools, training and support these volunteers need most.

Push our PayPal button below or pay securely by credit card here. Browse the PushSite, "read liberally" as TheUnnecesarean.com suggests, and SEE how your generous donations are being put to work to help our member PushStates!

WHAT'S NEW! 

• JULY 7 - OB/GYN Journal Fast Tracks Anti-Home Birth Study in Advance of Pro-Midwife Legislation Read the PushNews Release here
• MAR 5 - Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal signs into law new legislation to allow Certified Professional Midwives to deliver babies again
• MAR 4 - CDC Report: Demand for Out-of-Hospital Midwife Births Sharply Increases. Read the PushNews Release here
• FEB 22 - Mississippi House Bill 695 to OUTLAW CPMs & deny women access to CPM care: UPDATE: Pushers Stopped Anti-CPM Bill!
• JAN 1 - Happy 2010 and The Big Push for Midwives Hits the Terrible TWOs!!
• OCT 3 - Hundreds walk across AL to raise awareness about lack of access to CPMs. Alabama Birth Coalition hosts.
• SEPT 28 - THE INFLUENCE GAME: Birth centers fight for fees | The Associated Press REPORTS
• SEPT 9-18 - DEADLINE EXTENDED!! Donate $25+ by noon 9/18 and you could have dinner with Ina May Gaskin!
• SEPT 11 - Physicians Take Anti-Midwife Smear Campaign to the Airwaves on the Today Show. Read more here.
• AUG 25 - Physician Group Pulls the Plug on Women's Autonomy: Read the PushNewsrelease to see what's "allowed"
• AUG 20 - Mr. Andrew Laming, MP, gives a thrilling speech on the floor of the Parliament of Australia for home birth.
• AUG 21-27 - SD Mother walks across the state to raise awareness about lack of access to CPMs. Other states join.
• JULY 23 - Go to http://tinyurl.com/Support-CPMs-Petition and PUSH TO OPEN health care reform to CPMs!
• JULY 12-15 – Pushers convene in Birmingham, Alabama for PushSummit 2009
• JUNE 1 – Pushers Tell White House CPMs are 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
• JAN 1 - We Ring in 2009 and The Big Push for Midwives Turns One!!

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