Comments on: Utah Senate Bill 93

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:21:52 +0000

Starr, your perspective on our legal rights to privacy in our home is important to me too and I also feel that is a view that is being pushed aside by the arguments over the fear of the safety of homebirth vs. hospital birth. I also believe that licensure of midwives will hinder our rights as it will solidify obstetricians overseeing midwives and continue to limit women’s rights again under cover of fear regarding the safety of homebirth.

By: birthnaturally

birthnaturally — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:32:44 +0000

You’re absolutely right, Melody! It also affects all of the women and babies those midwives serve and the new version of the bill restricts unlicensed midwives as well.

By: Starr Merkle

Starr Merkle — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:21:07 +0000

God has given woman the ability to act and choose for themselves weather they want to have a baby at home or not! That is lour right not only as a woman, but if you reread the constituion you might be able to figure out, it is also our law under God. Let woman have babys at home if that is what they want to do!!!!

By: Melody Pendleton

Melody Pendleton — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:16:29 +0000

Hi! THis is Melody Pendleton, a Midwife in Mapleton, UT. I am a little frustrated over this bill and the way Senator Dayton passed this bill over as “All the Drs, Pediatricians, Hospitals and the utah Department of Utah is behind it. When asked whom it might affect she reported it would only affect the 16 LDEM’s in Utah.How wrong she is!!!