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ATTENTION: Shocking NC bill to criminalize natural medicine

Posted: Apr 5, 2011

There is a bill in North Carolina being voted on sometime today to criminalize natural medicine. If this is important to you, call and oppose! See link below for details and phone numbers.

"NC bill threatens to criminalize naturopaths, homeopaths, herbalists, midwives, aromatherapists as felons"

"And even if you do not live in North Carolina, you can still help oppose the bill by calling and expressing opposition."

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NC - icedT

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I copied it from Adobe, so I apologize about the quality. I honestly don't see why people are up in arms about it. It sounds like they (legislators) want those persons to be licensed. Of course, I'm not familiar with NC laws, but why wouldn't you want your midwife or anyone practicing medicine to be licensed?There's probably more to this, but this is all I could find.

It was introduced by Eric Mansfield, Democrat, who is a physician (if that matters).

I hope this isn't just another way for the state to collect fees, like that one news story about that little girl who was ticketed because she didn't have a permit/license to sell lemonade in front of her house last summer.

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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE PENALTY FOR THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF 2 MEDICINE. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 90-18(a) reads as rewritten: 5
"§ 90-18. Practicing without license; penalties. 6
(a) No person shall perform any act constituting the practice of medicine or surgery, as 7 defined in this Article, or any of the branches thereof, unless the person shall have been first 8 licensed and registered so to do in the manner provided in this Article. Article, and if any Any 9 person shall practice who practices medicine or surgery without being duly licensed and 10 registered, as provided in this Article, the person shall not be allowed to maintain any action to 11 collect any fee for such services. The person so practicing without license being duly licensed 12 and registered shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor,Class I felony, except that if the person 13 so practicing without a license is an out-of-state practitioner who has not been licensed and 14 registered to practice medicine or surgery in this State, the person shall be guilty of a Class I 15 felony. any person who has a license or approval under this Article that is inactive due solely to 16 the failure to complete annual registration in a timely fashion as required by this Article or any 17 person who is licensed, registered, and practicing under any other Article of this Chapter shall 18 be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor." 19
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2011, and applies to 20 offenses committed on or after that date.

Having had an unlicensed student nurse midwife - Kendra

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"deliver" and nearly kill my first son at a military hospital after she refused to call me a doctor after nearly 3 days of labor and 5.5 hours of labor, I think that it is a great idea!

5.5 hours of pushing oops! - Kendra

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nm

I agree with IcedT that these people need to be licensed/registered appropriately - nm

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