State of Utah: We've got midwives by the balls now

[shyfrog]

This is why you don't go to the state for "licensure"

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695254580,00.html

"I wish they hadn't asked for licensing," Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Provo and SB93 sponsor, said Tuesday during the bill's third reading in the Senate. "But with licensing comes regulation, as with a group or business in the state."

Dayton, who used to be a nurse and whose husband is an OB/GYN, said midwives must realize that with state license comes practice parameters, just like any other state-licensed occupation.

[coffeeseven]

Illinois is a lost battle. We have lobbyists that have kept them at bay (so far) in Wisconsin, our closest neighbor. We had to drive over the IL/WI border for ours X 2. You know you're alive when you're driving 45 minutes to a birthing safe house with a screaming pregnant woman by your side.