Illinois § 85

§ 85.

Prohibited practices. (a) A licensed certified professional midwife may not do any of the following: (1) administer prescription pharmacological agents intended to induce or augment labor; (2) administer prescription pharmacological agents to provide pain management; (3) use vacuum extractors or forceps; (4) prescribe medications; (5) provide out-of-hospital care to a childbearing individual who has had a previous cesarean section; (6) perform abortions or surgical procedures, including, but not limited to, cesarean sections and circumcisions, except for an emergency episiotomy; (7) knowingly accept responsibility for prenatal or intrapartum care of a client with any of the following risk factors: (A) chronic significant maternal cardiac, pulmonary, renal, or hepatic disease; (B) malignant disease in an active phase; (C) significant hematological disorders, coagulopathies, or pulmonary embolism; (D) insulin requiring diabetes mellitus; (E) known maternal congenital abnormalities affecting childbirth; (F) confirmed isoimmunization, Rh disease with positive titer; (G) active tuberculosis; (H) active syphilis or gonorrhea; (I) active genital herpes infection 2 weeks prior to labor or in labor; (J) pelvic or uterine abnormalities affecting normal vaginal births, including tumors and malformations; (K) alcoholism or alcohol abuse; (L) drug addiction or abuse; or (M) confirmed AIDS status. (b) A licensed certified professional midwife shall not administer Schedule II through IV controlled substances. Subject to a prescription by a health care professional, Schedule V controlled substances may be administered by licensed certified professional midwives. (Source: P.A. 102-683, eff. 10-1-22.)