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From YouTube: MAY 5 2022 Statements Jennifer Rice
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
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Not
only
can
midwives
provide
families
the
opportunity
to
access
primary
maternity
care
from
the
comfort
of
their
own
home,
but
they
specialize
in
healthy
and
low-risk
pregnancies,
effectively
reducing
the
pressure
put
on
hospital
resources
in
british
columbia.
We
are
fortunate
enough
to
have
over
400
highly
trained
midwives
accredited
through
the
pc
college
of
nurses
and
midwives,
who
provide
trauma-informed,
culturally,
safe,
inclusive
and
effective
services
to
families
across
the
province.
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This
is
a
group
meant
to
bring
together
people
in
the
prince
rupert
community,
who
would
like
to
see
midwifery
as
an
option
for
maternity
care,
whether
a
pregnant
woman
wants
to
have
a
hospital
or
home
birth
a
vaginal
or
planned
cesarean
birth,
maternity
care
with
a
doctor
or
a
midwife.
It
should
be
her
choice
currently
in
prince
rupert.
We
don't
have
many
of
those
choices,
but
collectively,
along
with
local
physicians
and
northern
health,
were
working
on
changing
this
today,
I
invite
you
all
to
join
me
in
celebrating
appreciating
and
honoring
midwives.
Thank
you.