(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)

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Sec. 85. Prohibited practices.

(a)A licensed certified professional midwife may not do any of the following:

(1)administer prescription pharmacological agents intended to induce or augment labor;

(2)administer prescription pharmacological agents to provide pain management;

(3)use vacuum extractors or forceps;

(4)prescribe medications;

(5)provide out-of-hospital care to a childbearing individual who has had a previous

cesarean section;

(6)perform abortions or surgical procedures, including, but not limited to, cesarean

sections and circumcisions, except for an emergency episiotomy;

(7)knowingly accept responsibility for prenatal or intrapartum care of a client with

any of the following risk factors:

(A)chronic significant maternal cardiac, pulmonary, renal, or hepatic disease;

(B)malignant disease in an active phase;

(C)significant hematological disorders, coagulopathies, or pulmonary embolism;

(D)insulin requiring diabetes mellitus;

(E)known maternal congenital abnormalities affecting childbirth;

(F)confirmed isoimmunization, Rh disease with positive titer;

(G)active tuberculosis;

(H)active syphilis or gonorrhea;

(I)active genital herpes infection 2 weeks prior to labor or in labor;

(J)pelvic or uterine abnormalities affecting normal vaginal births, including

tumors and malformations;

(K)alcoholism or alcohol abuse;

(L)drug addiction or abuse; or

(M)confirmed AIDS status.

(b)A licensed certified professional midwife shall not administer Schedule II through IV controlled substances. Subject to a prescription by a health care professional, Schedule V controlled substances may be administered by licensed certified professional midwives.