Midwifery in Labor: Struggling Under the Weight of Criminalization of Midwifery Care in South Carolina The professional landscape for South Carolina midwives has shifted overnight from a regulated healthcare system to a 'punishment by process,' where providers are being stripped of their livelihoods and arrested without the peer review or due process guaranteed by state law. 1. The Legal Foundation: Midwifery is NOT Medicine The state is currently charging midwives with "pra