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Barred from home births, Ala. midwives hope to decriminalize their career
• al-Jazerra.... Brock drove to the hospital with her hands still cupped inside the mother. The baby died, but Brock said the receiving doctor told her, "What you did probably saved [the mother's] life. If you hadn't been there, she wouldn't have lived." Still, Brock was charged with a misdemeanor for practicing nurse midwifery without a license. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 18 months of unsupervised probation and stopped delivering babies in Alabama....