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Instead of integrating midwives into the state’s maternity care system, Georgia maintains some of the most restrictive midwifery laws in the nation. Georgia prohibits direct-entry midwives—those trained outside the nursing profession who specialize in out-of-hospital births—from practicing midwifery altogether. It also bars certified nurse-midwives—advanced practice nurses trained in midwifery—from practicing independently by requiring a formal, written agreement with a physician that often entails paying physicians hundreds of dollars a month.  \n2. Jamarah Amani, Tamara Taitt, and Sarah Stokely are experienced midwives who have devoted their careers to supporting pregnant people and their families. They have spent years developing the skills necessary to care for low-risk pregnancies. Individuals and families actively seek out their expertise. Yet Georgia law threatens them with criminal and civil penalties should they provide that care in the State.  \n3. Georgia’s Midwifery Restrictions do not advance patient safety. Extensive research shows that midwifery care is safe and effective for low-risk pregnancies, is associated with fewer  \nunnecessary medical interventions, and is linked to improved outcomes. Georgia’s restrictions contradict that evidence and bear no rational relationship to differences in training, scope of practice, or risk. Instead, Georgia blocks qualified midwives from providing the care they are trained to deliver while doing nothing to ensure meaningful collaboration among maternity care providers or improve health outcomes.  \n4. In doing so, Georgia’s restrictions intrude on one of life’s most significant experiences: pregnancy and birth. Decisions about prenatal and postpartum care and where, how, and with whom to give birth affect not only medical outcomes but also personal autonomy, cultural practices, and family. Georgia’s laws sharply limit these decisions.  \n5. Georgia’s restrictions also reflect and perpetuate a history of excluding midwives from practice. For generations, midwives—including Black midwives across the South—were central to supporting pregnant people through pregnancy and birth. Over time, however, Georgia imposed increasingly restrictive laws as part of a broader campaign that pushed midwives out of practice, narrowed options for families, and left lasting consequences.  \n6. Georgia’s restrictions persist even as the State faces one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the United States and a substantial shortage of maternity care providers, particularly in rural areas. These threats disproportionately endanger the lives and health of Black pregnant people and their babies.  \n7. Georgia’s onerous and unreasonable restrictions violate core guarantees of the Georgia Constitution, including the right to pursue one’s chosen profession, equal protection of the laws, and limits on the delegation of governmental power to private actors. Plaintiffs therefore seek judicial relief to bring the State into compliance with the law, restore lawful pathways for midwives to practice, and enable Georgians to access the maternity care they want and need.  \nPARTIES  \nI. PLAINTIFFS  \n8. JAMARAH AMANI is a recognized leader in midwifery and birth justice and a direct-entry midwife licensed in Florida, where she has practiced for 13 years.  \n9. From a young age, Amani organized around public health issues affecting Black communities, including HIV prevention, infant-mortality reduction, and access to contraception and midwifery care. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Amani pursued graduate studies at Clark Atlanta University, where she researched the disproportionately high Black maternal mortality rates in the United States and Georgia. She has seen firsthand the barriers famili","cbCaip9Qq9y3kyZt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip9Qq9y3kyZt","pdf",586874,65,"English","# Introduction\n## Parties\n### Plaintiffs\n# Jamarah Amani","[{\"question\":\"Who are the plaintiffs and what are their roles in the case?\",\"answer\":\"The plaintiffs are Jamarah Amani, Tamara Taitt, and Sarah Stokely. 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