Save Alabama Birth Centers- Petition

The Alabama Department of Public health has proposed a birth center rules that was originally drafted in 1987.

Freestanding birth centers can provide an evidence-based alternative to hospital birth for many families. Unfortunately, Alabama currently has none in operation but there are some in planning and development phases. In light of this, the Alabama Department of Public Health has moved to reinstate rules and regulations for the operations of birth centers that were allowed to sunset in 2010 and likely for good reason. 

Several aspects of this motion raise questions of a serious nature: 

• They claim that this set of rules and regulations will have no economic impact in order to bypass more significant scrutiny. Since when does a regulation restricting the rights of individuals to do business equal no economic impact?

 • They also exclude Certified Professional Midwives, for whom we fought so hard to have available for birthing people in this state, from the list of approved professions for birth center operations. This lack of inclusion indicates a significant deficit in contextual language of the Rules and Regulation. 

• These rules and regulations were written in 1987 and very clearly do not reflect current evidence or best-practice guidelines. 

• They insert significant financial roadblocks to prevent ease of business establishment and thereby restricting care access. Rural Alabamians will suffer continued access to care issues.

Help us fight back and STOP these Birth Center Rules that will RESTRICT access to care and to the detriment to the health of mamas and babies!!

CALL TO ACTION

Sign our petition (and any of the others that you see)... We have power in numbers! Even if you follow all of the other call to actions, let’s show them HOW many people in our state want access to birth centers! >>> https://ourfight.online/SaveAlabamaBirthCenters

-Alabama Birth Coalition