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Midwifery Support
Please help keep midwifery and birth choices available by taking action on issues below!
Choices for where families choose to birth might become extinct if the American Medical Association and the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists succeed in their goal of eliminating homebirths and midwifery care. They
have put this as a priority over prenatal HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention and emergency contraception among others.
Please consider becoming active in preserving your freedom of choice by going to The Big Push or Citizens for Midwifery websites.
Please take a few minutes to send an email with the subject heading "A New Birth of Freedom"
to our new president today. Click on the URL below and send a very simple but powerful message to the Obama administration:
"Please be sure to include Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs),
who specialize in providing out-of-hospital maternity care, in federal healthcare reform."
http://change.gov/page/s/healthcare
[takes
you to a window for e-mailing your message]
This will help
ensure that our issue of expanding access to out-of-hospital births attended by CPMs gets the attention it deserves.
Please send a quick email notification to The Big Push for Midwives
Facebook wall after you post your comment so we can keep a running tally.
Keep in mind that we are at a crossroads. Healthcare reform is now inevitable and will be based on the reimbursement
categories and rates for Medicaid and federal employees. Private insurers are widely expected to follow suit. So if CPMs are
not included as recognized providers in federal healthcare reform, there is a very real possibility that home birth families
will not be able to receive insurance reimbursement, regardless of whether they have private or public healthcare insurance.
Please act now.
Thank
you very, very much.
Steff Hedenkamp | Communications Coordinator
| The Big Push for Midwives Campaign | 816.506.4630
steff@thebigpushformidwives.org
TheBigPushForMidwives.org
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