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Oregon mommas,
Midwives there need your help.
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Midwives there need your help.
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| HB3232, as currently written maintains a majority of direct-entry midwives on our oversight board, in keeping with OMC's legislative bottom lines. However, new language has been proposed that will remove our majority. If the current LDM majority is removed, we will be the only health care providers without a majority on its professional board. As the experts in out-of-hospital care, vaginal birth, and our own profession, it is vital that direct entry midwives have a strong voice on our board. Maintaining a majority of Licensed Direct-entry Midwives on the LDM board helps to insure safe practice and to protect the best interests of the families midwives serve. Direct-entry midwives currently attend births for a diversity of families including poor, rural and other underserved women in our state, many of whom face transportation and economic barriers to prenatal care and for whom unlicensed and licensed direct-entry midwives remain a viable (and sometimes the only viable) route of access to care. It is imperative that we protect the out of hospital birthing option, and the right for a woman and her family to choose where and with whom she delivers. This is especially important during this economic crisis when more and more women are facing barriers to prenatal and birthing care. Oregon must refrain from enacting any legislation that removes the majority status held by LDMs on the Board of Direct-entry Midwifery or similarly threatens the current practice of midwifery in Oregon. To insure best practice, it is vital that the experts -- the Licensed Direct-entry Midwives -- retain their majority on their professional board. Please call, e-mail or write to your Legislators and to Rep Greenlick, personalizing your letter or email by sharing some of your experiences with midwifery care. A brief example is attached for your use if you choose. You can also refer to the attached talking points for more ideas. To find out who your state and federal elected officials are, simply go to the following link and fill in your address and zip. http://www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/ Here also is the link that will allow you to find out what your senators and representatives are doing: http://www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/ Please forward this to clients, friends, families members etc.....anyone who is willing to write a letter on our behalf. A hearing has been scheduled in Salem for Monday April 27th at 3:00pm. We would like Chair Greenlick to be bombarded with letters before that hearing. Thank you for your support and timely response, Missy Cheyney OMC Legislative Liaison Holly Scholles OMC President -- Melissa Cheyney, Ph.D., CPM, LDM Assistant Professor Oregon State University Department of Anthropology 212 Waldo Hall Corvallis, Oregon 97331 [email protected] <mailto:cheyneym%40onid.orst.edu> office: 541-737-3895 |
