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Alabama Birth Centers Win Legal Relief | Birmingham News
A Alabama judge just sided with birth centers, letting them stay open despite state pressure to relicense as hospitals — a move that could have bankrupted them. These midwifery-led facilities, vital in a state with alarmingly high maternal mortality, were threatened with closure after being told they needed hospital-level staffing and regulations. The ACLU-backed centers argued the rules were financially impossible to meet, and the judge agreed — ruling the law hasn’t changed since their original licenses. For now, expectant mothers can keep accessing this critical, low-intervention birthing…
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