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This bill requires midwives and physicians who practice obstetrics to provide pregnant women information on birthing options prior to delivery. Under the bill, a certified nurse midwife or physician is to provide a pregnant patient, in writing in either English, Arabic, Chinese, Creole, French, or Spanish, during the initial consultation, and prior to the onset of labor as determined by the Department of Health, with information on all birthing options that are available to the patient, including, but not limited to, planned hospital birth induced with Pitocin or an epidural, hospital water births, home water births; hospital non-Medicaid births; home non-Medicaid births; scheduled births and scheduled C-sections; emergency C-sections, health risks associated with each birthing option, health risks to the mother and infant associated with an epidural, Pitocin, and other medications, and a list of birthing options that are covered by the patient's health insurance carrier. The Commissioner of Health is to promulgate rules and regulations as are necessary to effectuate the provisions of this bill.

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Angela Mcknight (D)*,  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)*,  Britnee Timberlake (D)*,  Linda Carter (D),  Shama Haider (D),  Angelica Jimenez (D), 

Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Health Committee (on 02/07/2022)

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