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

Women need to choice and professionals need to safety and security to adequately offer that choice

This is critical to keep Mum's able to birth at home if this is what they are planning - keep Mum's and babies safe by having these experienced practitioners with them.

Healthy women who want to birth their babies at home need experienced support. Without Public Liability Insurance competent midwives won't be able to offer their service and care. This won't necessarily deter women from choosing home, but could increase the risks to mother and baby.

About time and about free choice!

Keep freedom of choice for women to home birth with the support of midwives.

We need to empower women to give birth and midwives can do that safely and wholistically

I am deeply saddened that a petition is even need for this subject. Support Women and there birth workers in however they choose to bring forth their babies. Make birth sfaer for everyone!!!

I do agree

I had an incredible home birth with my first baby and desperately want this option for my second.

Its more than time. Get those insurance protocols sorted out. As a national priority Get midwives to every woman who needs wants and chooses home birth. Where ever she lives in Australia.

Women need unfettered access to midwifery care in pregnancy.

I believe all should have the choice to birth how they want.

All women have the right to choice of birth place and with this goes the right to have a skilled birth attendant with them. By not providing access to schemes private indemnity insurance home births will be pushed underground. Women who want home births may not have access to midwives and adverse outcomes will multiply. Birth is a normal physiological process of a woman's body. For many women, hospital stays are not necessary and increase the risk of unwanted interventions which come with their own risks. Allow educated women who choose to have a birth at home that option and keep it safe with an insured midwife present.

women have the right to birth out of hospitals.

I believe every woman should choose their own path

Not my choice but others should be allowed their choice

please approve professional indemnity for this valuable profession. Individuals should be able to have choices.

I was fortunate to have a home birth and I want this to be a choice for other women too.

Women must have the choice to birth at home with a trained midwife. Removing that choice will result in higher unassisted homebirths.

Options for birthing mothers please. Such an important experience for both mother and child. The more we support them in their own choices the better for us all.