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National campaign to educate about, regulate, and integrate CPMs in all 50 States, D.C, Puerto Rico, Guam & Virgin Islands. https://teapawt.net/t.co/o9OawVPESR

Washington, DC
Joined January 2010
1/🥳 A rare bright spot for #MaternalHealth in #Iowa. Today @KimReynoldsIA signed HF 265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives making #Iowa state #38 (+ DC). #ialegis @IAGovernor Press release: governor.iowa.gov/press-rele… @PushforMidwives
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Read a press release on #Iowa becoming the 38th state to regulate Certified Professional #Midwives: tinyurl.com/yc4ptm3b Thank you to everyone that has provided support in getting this bill finally passed! #ialegis #MaternalHealth @PushforMidwives
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“This bill has been decades in the making thanks to a diverse coalition of individuals past & present. Once this bill is signed by the governor more Iowa families will have access to midwifery model of care which is associated w/improved maternal health outcomes” @MeganDaySuhr – at Des Moines, IA
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Thanks @BusinessRecord for highlighting the passage of HF 265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives in #Iowa: businessrecord.activehosted.… #ialegis – at Des Moines, IA
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1/Kudos to @MeganDaySuhr & @shiphrahbirth for their tireless efforts for many years to get this bill passed & the longstanding support from @marymascher @Rep_BobbyK & many other #ialegis legislators. @PushforMidwives
📢 HF 265 (as amended from Senate) to license Certified Professional #Midwives has passed the #Iowa House 91-2. The bill now goes @IAGovernor for signing!!! History is made. #Iowa will be #38 !!! Congrats to all the midwives & advocates past & present @PushforMidwives
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📢 HF 265 (as amended from Senate) to license Certified Professional #Midwives has passed the #Iowa House 91-2. The bill now goes @IAGovernor for signing!!! History is made. #Iowa will be #38 !!! Congrats to all the midwives & advocates past & present @PushforMidwives
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1/Email your #ialegis Senator now to ask them to vote yes to HF265 to license #midwives in #Iowa when it comes to the Senate floor this week: legis.iowa.gov/legislators/f…. This is a bipartisan bill, improves #MaternalHealth & will make Iowa #38! @PushforMidwives
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1/ Contact all #Iowa Senators & ask them to vote yes to HF 265 without amendment to license Certified Professional #Midwives. This passed the House 91-2 & two full Senate committees. This is the farthest this bill has ever gone. Help us make Iowa #38! #ialegis @PushforMidwives
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The coronavirus exacerbated the effects of medical racism already baked into the U.S. healthcare system, leading to a spike in Black maternal mortality rates between 2020 and 2021, new data from the @CDCgov reveals. via @MsMagazine bit.ly/3JXGLmM
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PushforMidwives retweeted
#actionalert Support Midwifery Education & Funding for Birth Centers! AABC, ACNM & NACPM partner to request funding for midwifery education & birth center start-ups. Call your 2 Senators by April 6th to support Maternal Health funding. #birthcenters buff.ly/40YJTFP
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UPDATE/HF265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives in #Iowa passed the Senate Ways & Means subcommittee AND the full committee today. Stay tuned for further info/action steps! #ialegis #MaternalHealth
1/Tomorrow at 8:30am HF265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives in #Iowa will go before Senate Ways & Means for a subcommittee. This should be our final sub of this session. We are so close. #ialegis
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5/END Watch video of Melanie, Certified Professional Midwife practicing in #Iowa 30 yrs who has been prosecuted by state for no reason other than providing quality #MaternalHealth care in rural Cedar County where there is no hospital: youtu.be/Ldn0126tBhc #ialegis #midwives
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1/Tomorrow at 8:30am HF265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives in #Iowa will go before Senate Ways & Means for a subcommittee. This should be our final sub of this session. We are so close. #ialegis
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1/Tomorrow at 8:30am HF265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives in #Iowa will go before Senate Ways & Means for a subcommittee. This should be our final sub of this session. We are so close. #ialegis
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"...planned hospital birth in many places does not reduce mortality & morbidity but increases the frequency of interventions & complications...the increasing medicalisation of childbirth tends to undermine women’s own capability to give birth.." #ialegis #midwives #Iowa
Midwife-assisted home birth is an integrated part of maternity care 👏 Studies suggest that planned hospital birth for women @ low risk of complications is NOT safer than planned home birth assisted by a #midwife w/ medical backup. 👇 @cochranecollab ow.ly/n4aW50NtAhU
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