We are excited to announce the NBMA Board of Directors' open call for two student midwife Board members as part of the Board's commitment to ensure student representation at the leadership level!

On April 1st, the administration halted funding for a network of clinics, including midwifery practices and birth centers, across the country. Title X is the only federal program solely dedicated to affordable preventive health services and family planning. It helps ensure that people who are uninsured, underinsured, or living with the impacts of poverty and systemic inequity can access birth control, STI care, and cancer screenings.

Before medical industrial maternal health systems rooted in capitalism and forced regulation, birth was seen as a sacred, harmonious, and a joyful communal experience guided with integrity for new life, where mothers and babies thrived. Before birth became controlled, commodified and capitalized, it was honored through earth-based, Indigenous practices. Midwifery has always existed—long before it was institutionalized or licensed—passed from midwife to midwife, through oral tradition and sacred apprenticeship.