News from the Center for Reproductive Rights

• Court Rules Native Hawaiian Midwives Can Resume Providing Care, 07.26.24
• Press release: Court Rules in Favor of Native Hawaiian Midwives, 07.24.24
• Defending Reproductive Autonomy: Center Sues Hawaiʻi to Protect Midwifery Care, 02.27.24
• Press release: Hawai‘i Law Restricting Midwives Challenged in Court, 02.27.24

Media highlights: state court ruling, 07.23.24

• “Court decision allows Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners to resume midwifery,” Hawaii Public Radio, 07.25.24
• “Judge’s ruling temporarily allows for unlicensed Native Hawaiian midwifery,” Associated Press, 07.25.24
• “Court Rules in Favor of Native Hawaiian Midwives,” Maui Now, 07.24.24
• “Judge halts enforcement of midwife law,” Spectrum Local News, 07.25.24

Media highlights: case filing, 02.27.24

• “‘Medical colonialism’: midwives sue Hawaii over law regulating Native birth workers,” The Guardian, 02.27.24
• “Midwives Sue Hawai’i, Challenging Law Restricting Native Birthworkers,” Teen Vogue, 03.04.24
• “Midwives suing the state say law restricts access to traditional birthing practices,” Hawaiʻi Public Radio, 02.28.24
• “Hawaii’s midwifery licensure law comes under fire,” Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 03.03.24
• “Lawsuit filed to protect midwifery in Hawaiʻi; Group to rally for traditional birth practices at state Capitol,” Maui Now, 02.27.24
• “Hawai‘i state law restricting midwives challenged in court,” Maui News, 02.28.24
• “Midwives challenge constitutionality of Midwifery Restriction Law,” Spectrum News, 03.02.24
• “Hawaii Has an Opportunity to Improve Gender-Affirming Care Access,” Rewire News Group, 02.28.24