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Thread-Topic: URGENT - Proposed changes to Midwife Regulations in South Carolina (Dec 2015)
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Subject: URGENT - Proposed changes to Midwife Regulations in South Carolina (Dec 2015)
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<FIRST>Elizabeth</FIRST>
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<SUBJECT>URGENT - Proposed changes to Midwife Regulations in South Carolina (Dec 2015)</SUBJECT>
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Gov Haley - 
The current DHEC board is NOT acting in the best interest of SC citizens.  

The board has recently written proposed new regulations for midwifery in South Carolina.  South Carolina HAS a Midwife Advisory Council that was set up by the state, primarily for regulating midwifery in SC, but the current board seems think they should write the rules instead. It is my understanding, that the board not only didn't get input from the MAC, they denied the MAC access to the proposal, forcing the MAC to wait &amp get a copy when it was released to the public.  (This goes against all logic.)

All medical rules &amp regulations should be based on evidence of what is best, healthiest &amp safest for patients. These newest proposed rules have obviously been written by people who have no training in childbirth, pregnancy nor midwifery, and (at best) a very limited understanding of medicine in general. In nearly all areas of medicine the national organization for that specialty bears the primary responsibility for setting the standards of practice - except in midwifery.  Why does South Carolina repeatedly and consistently refuse to take guidance on this issue from the MAC, and North American Registry of Midwives?  You have experts on hand, waiting &amp eager to advise you and your council - use this resource. 

Women should be free to make EVIDENCE-BASED Medical decisions about their prenatal care &amp childbirth. The list of nonsense absurdities in the proposed new regs are so lengthy as to be mind-boggling (including making it illegal for a midwife to administer potentially life-saving medicine until AFTER the patient has already had extensive blood loss, instead of administering as soon as the hemorrhaging is apparent ).

Midwives already have to pass extensive training &amp certification to practice in the state of South Carolina, why should they then be subject to micro-managing from untrained, non-medical personnel?   
Gov Haley, I urge you to insist that DHEC let the MAC write the rules (or at least let them write the initial draft) - for only those TRAINED in childbirth &amp medicine are qualified to create the rules.   

BOTTOM LINE = MEDICINE NEEDS TO BE EVIDENCE-BASED, AND ONLY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS SHOULD BE MAKING MEDICAL DECISIONS FOR PATIENTS
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