Petition to Allow Private Midwives to be Eligible for Professional Indemnity Insurance or to Be Exempt from Being Required to Enroll in PI

Every human should have the right to make their own medical choices regardless of what others opinions are!

Women should be given the right to choose! Hospitals are for sick people, not healthy women birthing healthy babies

Denying women access to homebirth, or even any birth with an IM, puts women and babies at risk.

I don't know why this is even a thing. Best of luck with this.

Let all women choose how and where they give birth.

Everyone deserves the right to choose their birth journey. Midwives are birthing specialists. .....let them do their job. They don't schedule births around golf games, holidays, weekends away.....like other medical folk do!!

Don't take away a woman's choice on where to have a baby

it is vital to support home birth and private midwives!

Women need more birthing options not less.

All my children were born at home. One was 9lb 10oz! No dramas no crisis mentality. No medical interventions. Nature knows best. We cannot let insurance companies dictate our way of life.

UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!

Registered Midwife

Women deserve a choice where to give birth. Either make it an option at every public hospital through a caseload program like at Casey and Sunshine or give private practicing midwives Private Indemnity Insurance options.

I want to continue to see that home birth is a choice in Australia

Women have the right to choose how we birth. It's not a medical procedure, it's the most natural thing a woman can do. This needs to happen

Women should have the right to choose.

Midwife are fantastic. What good are we as a society if we can't support these skilled compassionate women and men

Extend the exemption! Get rid of all the "catch 22" red tape before it causes problems! Either streamline all legal processes for the safety of midwives & the families they serve, or better yet, simply decriminalize the work of all birth attendants & stay out of their, & their clients' business!

as a student midwife about to begin my career, and as an advocate for women' rights to choose a home birth we midwifes need to be able to practice supported by our government

Midwives should have access to PI insurance ... every woman deserves the right to choose a hospital or homebirth. Personally I had 2 hospital births & 1 homebirth .