During the late 1940s, the number of traditional midwives in Georgia was dwindling, and there were not enough providers to care for poor women in several rural counties. By the decade's end ...

Pilar Hererro, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, has dedicated her career to advocating for ...

and registered traditional African American midwives. Others obtained administrative positions in hospital obstetric services, where they made hospital birth more woman and family centered.

In the lush islands of Hawaiʻi, the practice of midwifery holds deep roots in the culture and traditions of the Native ...

This study also takes a broader historical view of midwifery in the Middle East by examining the tensions between learned medicine (male) and popular, medico-religious practices (female) from early ...

Some midwives and their advocates have been trying to get the licensure requirements repealed, with many concerned the law regulates traditional Native Hawaiian practices out of existence.