ISTW provides comprehensive support to midwives facing legal action including:

• financial contributions
• assistance with fund raising
• legal advice
• mobilization of the national homebirth community

ISTW seeks to grow a strong and responsive community through

• legal preparation and prevention workshops
• a resource for accurate and up-to-date information
• unity through membership

Midwives continue to be criminally prosecuted for offering safe and accessible homebirth options to women. These claims are an attack on midwives and an assault on communities. In Service to Women strives to ensure all women’s ability to birth in the manner clinically proven to be the safest for low-risk women and newborns.

ISTW is a place where midwife, advocate and consumer can stand shoulder to shoulder to protect the practice of traditional midwifery and preserve parents’ options locally and nationally.