A state Appellate Court ruling is being hailed as a victory for midwives and the right of Connecticut families to choose home births.
The court issued a decision in a case that pitted two midwives against the Connecticut Medical Examining Board. The ruling ended more than a decade of litigation in which the Department of Public Health had tried to outlaw home births by midwives who are neither doctors nor nurses, branding it as the "unauthorized practice of medicine," said attorney Diane Polan, of New Haven.
