Dear Friends:
 
Jennifer makes an excellent point that licensure has been used to control  
midwifery and has worked against midwives in the US. There is a book published  
that develops this very same notion: Making Midwives Legal: Childbirth, 
Medicine  and the Law.
 
My thoughts on this issue are complex. Licensure has helped physicians,  PTs, 
massage therapists and other professions. It has been a detriment to  
midwifery practice in the US. So what to do about LCs?
 
On one hand, being a LC is so complex. What other profession  besides the 
counseling ones, deals with 2 individuals plus a process? On  the other hand, 
licensure hasn't helped midwives.
 
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
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