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Hearing only: Bill to license community midwives draws lengthy testimony and divergent views
Summary
House Bill 520, a hearing-only bill to license direct-entry/community midwives, drew extensive testimony from midwives, mothers, clinicians and the Department of Public Health.
Representative Masiak presented House Bill 520 in a hearing-only session, saying the bill's intent is to establish licensure and regulation for home-birth midwives in Georgia.
"When a state has an underground network of healthcare providers, it is our responsibility to provide that safety for the consumer through regulation rather than prosecution," Representative Masiak said, describing the bill's aim to create licensure pathways for direct-entry midwives and to repeal an older chapter in Title 31.
Nut graf: Testimony included midwives (both credentialed and traditional), mothers who had home births, a labor-and-delivery nurse and a representative from the Georgia Department of Public Health.…
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