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Journalist Amanda Robert’s story highlighting the homebirth situation in Illinois, says it all in the tag line: “Thirty years later, Illinois midwives fight for birth rights.” For 30 years the state of Illinois has been aware that some 800 – 1000 Illinois women per year choose home birth and choose the care of a midwife especially [...] 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 [...] |
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