Judge strikes down Missouri midwifery law

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A judge has struck down a new law that would have allowed certain lay midwives to deliver babies in Missouri without facing the threat of criminal charges.

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