Tools for Legislative Action
How can you determine who represents you?
• Here's a great web site with everything "legal": just scroll to your state in the long list of topics to find your representatives.
• To find your state online, type this URL, replacing the asterisk with the two-letter postal code abbreviation for your state: www.state.*.us (example: the State of Minnesota's URL is www.state.mn.us). In addition to legislative information, most states maintain records online for their regulatory agencies, boards, commissions, and other offices. These can be a source of good information about allies, about relevant departmental areas, and about the general climate of the agency.
• The American College of Nurse Midwives also provides a list online of State Policy Resources, including commission chairs, regulatory staff persons and other important contacts, listed by state. The role of these agencies is detailed as well.• Call your local Elections Board to find out your district numbers and names of your state Representative and Senator.
• Look in your phone book or call your public library.
• Call your local League of Women Voters for phone numbers and mailing addresses.
Many thanks to Citizens for Midwifery for material adapted from their web site. Click here to go there for a lot of other great information and contact to others in your community who are interested in birth issues.
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