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Black women in Georgia turn to midwives for safer births – so why does the state criminalize many of them?

<p>A new lawsuit seeks to decriminalize the work of midwives banned from providing care amid a worsening maternal health crisis</p><p>When Tamara Taitt moved to Georgia in 2023 to run the Atlanta Birth Center, she found herself in what she calls “an extraordinary position”. Under Georgia law, the center’s own executive director cannot provide routine clinical care for the center’s own clients. She could even face criminal charges for doing so.</p><p>Taitt is a nationally accredited midwife. She directs one of the only freestanding birth centers in the state – a destination for women seeking to give birth outside a hospital, cared for by midwives rather than obstetricians. Families choose birth centers to access more holistic, less medicalized prenatal care and birth, and to avoid invasive medical interventions in a state where C-sections occur at three times the rate recommended by the World Health Organization.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/11/georgia-mi...