Sen. Larry Stutts, R-Tuscumbia, walks across the floor of the Alabama Senate on April 25, 2024 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. A group representing Alabama midwives withdrew its support for a bill updating their practice regulations after Stutts introduced a substitute that they said was too restrictive. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector)
A group representing midwives in the state has withdrawn its support for a bill intended to update their practice regulations after a Senate committee made significant changes to it.
As originally filed, SB 87 , sponsored by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, would have allowed midwives to administer three parts of newborn screenings: heel stick, hearing screening, and Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) screening, which can provide early detection of genetic or metabolic conditions…