Maryland Families for Safe Birth is a Non-Profit grass-roots organization, working to legalize and license Certified Professional Midwives in Maryland. Our goals is to make out of hospital birth safe by allowing Maryland women access to Certified Professional Midwives. They are the only health care provider who specializes in Out-of-Hospital maternity care. 26 states across our country recognize CPM's as medical professionals and license them in their state. In these states, women who choose Out-of-Hospital Birth have outcomes that are as safe as those who choose hospital birth. 

Many women are forced to cross state lines or deliver at home without a Midwife because of lack of Home Birth and Birth Center Midwives. We believe every family in Maryland has the right to have access to a licensed midwife when planning an Out-of- Hospital Birth. We are drafting a bill to go before the state legislature in January of 2013 that will request the legalizing of CPM's in Maryland. We ask you to sign this petition to demonstrate your support of such a bill.