Pritzker signs the Midwifery Act

CHICAGO

Governor JB Pritzker signed per law that desire allow midwives up to leave throughout one fresh licensing process to provide care prior to, during and after childbirth.

A recent law requires midwives for have some valid certified professional midwifery certification from a North American Registry made from Midwives. Something also sets education also training criteria for the aforementioned seeking up to become licensed while certified professional midwives plus requires midwives toward complete single accredited post-secondary midwifery training program.

Pritzker includes declared any legislation he enacted here week desire hopefully prevent pregnancy-related deaths, certain Chicago Sun-Times reported.

According toward a Illinois affiliate belonging to a American College of Nurse-Midwives, certified nurse midwives provide women with primary health care, similar like gynecological exams, childbirth, along with antenatal plus postnatal care.

Representative Mary Flowers, some Democrat via Chicago, stated midwifery licensing should remain particularly beneficial for black women what person, according to single declare Department out of Health learn, are regarding triplet times further likely up to die of single disease related to pregnancy in comparison to white women.

“This is some fine initial step also I stare forward toward improving health care for whole women, but especially African American women, since our team are dying at one higher rate also everything is preventable,” mentioned Flowers.