Virtual Midwife Day 3/10/21
Please join us, along with the Community Midwives National Alliance (CMNA), TOMORROW, March 10, 2021 from 2:00-4:00 pm for our annual VIRTUAL Midwife Day for Georgia Legislators! We are so proud to host Aviva Romm, MD and Jennie Joseph, Licensed Midwife and CEO of Commonsense Childbirth. Additional panel members are Senator Lester Jackson III who is sponsoring our bill, SB111 in the Senate and Dr. Rimani C. Kelsey-Rogers, a home birth mother and advocate.
Legislators will be attending via ZOOM to participate in the panel discussion, but our community and consumers can watch via this livestream.
We are excited about another opportunity to educate Georgia’s lawmakers on community birth and midwifery. Our state continues to have the worst outcomes for birthing people and babies. We know that Midwives are part of the solution! Please feel free to personally invite your representatives to take part in the Zoom that has been emailed to them and also given via flyer at the capitol! Don’t know who your representatives are? Find out here.
We are even more excited to be able to join with CMNA to work together towards licensure for community midwives. Certified professional midwives are community midwives! Our two groups, together, wrote the entirety of SB111 and have worked together to bring you this event.
We are working tirelessly to make sure that your access to Certified Professional Midwives, and all community midwives, is no longer threatened. These events, the food that we feed the legislators, the paper that we use to print information for them… all of this costs money that we do not have much of! We desperately need your donations to help us afford to continue this work! Any amount is helpful!
An Update on the House Bill
Our bill sponsor on the House side has chosen not to support midwives with licensure efforts right now. We are working on finding a new House sponsor, but continue to be grateful to Senator Lestor Jackson for his tireless efforts to provide Georgia families with access to Midwives for community Birth.