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Contact your House
Representative Now!
Now is the time for ACTION!!!!
It is important you contact your senator NOW via phone
OR email/ fax.
You can look up your senator at http://www.elections.il.gov/DistrictLocator/AddressSearch.aspx
You can look up the Bill at http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?
Phone
Script:
"I am calling to ask your support for SB 264: The Illinois Safe Childbirth
Act. It amends the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act to establish
freestanding birth centers in Illinois.
I am a midwife/mother/father/pregnant woman/interested constituent (whaterver
applies here) and I would like you to co-sponsor or vote for it.
What is your position on establishing birth centers for safe childbirth
options for the women in Illinois?"
Birth Centers are an important option for women, and available to women across
the world, in 35 U.S. States, and in all states surrounding Illinois including
Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, and Wisconsin.
The Health Professional Shortage areas in Illinois are increasing in number,
hospital obstetrcial departments are closing, and women are being deprived of a
safe option for birthing.
FBCs are less expensive than hospitals (assisting women without health insurance
to get safe childbirth care), and the studies prove their safety. We need this
in Illinois now.
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