Not exact matches
Note: However, coverage
of home
births will be considered when mandated by law under
plans subject to state mandates.
Midwifery advocates often cite what they see as the biggest irony
of anti-midwife laws like the one in Missouri: that a good Samaritan who helps a woman deliver her baby on the side
of a road or in a taxi cab is not
subject to prosecution, but that a trained midwife who helps a woman carefully
plan her out -
of - hospital
birth is.
In much the same way as the location
of a
planned hospital
birth is
subject to the availability
of beds, we can not guarantee that a
birth room will be available.
Recently, an article in the American Journal
of Obstetrics & Gynecology pled with obstetricians to not support
planned home
birth in any way, and even suggested that those who do «should be
subject to peer review and justifiably incur professional liability and sanction from state medical boards» (1).