Question re nurse midwife Program

[Guest guest]

Friends,A young woman wrote to ask for some advice on how to speak with the director to the Midwife program. She told me I could copy this for you.

Thank you, Fr. To give you an update I was recently accepted into Columbia for Midwifery, the catch is I am being asked to preform competencies that include contraception and referrals for abortions.  I am pretty sure since talking with a lawyer that this will not be an issue because there is something called the " church amendment " which precludes institutions which take any type of gov. funds for medical research from forcing me to do either.  The director can make my life difficult though, which I am a bit worried about. 

As far my background I am a doula and a lactation consultant, I will in May have a certificate from the NCBC in bioethics and am 3 classes short of my Masters in theology there.  My undergrad was in maternal child health and basically I like to hang out with pregnant women, primarily undeserved and economically disadvantaged pregnant women which is why I'm pursuing midwifery so strongly.  I want to make a difference in the world, I'd like to be an NFP only practitioner that provides poor women with comprehensive prenatal and antenatal care.

  -- Fr. R. Vélez765 14th Ave, Apt 1San Francisco, CA 94118Website: www.newmanbiography.com