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Note: This is a first post by doula extraordinaire, midwife-in-training and legislative advocate, Rachel Dolan Wickersham. Amy and Rachel are thrilled to begin our work as a team to bring ChicagoDoula to you in its new format as a collaborative birth blog. Enjoy! I’ve had a lot of requests for a basic primer on the different [...] Despite a setback earlier this month, and what this article might lead you to believe, Rep. Julie Hamos and the co-sponsors of the Illinois’ Home Birth Safety Act, HB 226, are still working on getting the bill passed this session. They need all the help we can give them to turn legislators’ “no’s” into “yes’s”. If [...] I promise to write about the road-trip-to lobby-with-children part of yesterday and upload the pictures as soon as I am done sorting them. As far as the legislation goes, here is the roll call for the vote to pass HB226 out of committee yesterday: Yes: Mary Flowers Keith Sommer Mike Zalewsk Julie Hamos (subbing in for Esther Golar) No: Greg Harris Will Burns Lisa Dugan Karen [...] We are home and settling in. The hearing was packed and the hallway outside was lined with mamas and babies and kids and dads. I was barely able to get into the room but was able to speak to two Reps in person beforehand – Rep. Osmond, who just doesn’t get it and was not [...] |
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