About the Group   Yukoners for Funded Midwifery is a consumer group working to get midwifery services integrated into the Yukon Territorial Health Care Insurance Plan. Every Yukon woman should have access to choices about her pregnancy and her birth experience, whether she wants to use a doctor, a midwife, have a home birth, or give birth in a hospital.   Midwifery is currently practiced in the Yukon as a private service, and there are no laws against it.  Because midwives are not regulated or integrated into the health care system, they do not have hospital privileges and so currently  provide services only for home births.   Yukoners for Funded Midwifery welcomes anyone in the Yukon who has an interest in seeing midwifery become integrated into the health care system to join the group.  We would love to have more members from the communities! Please contact us for more information or to have your name added to the email list to receive updates on midwifery in the Yukon.   You can also sign the petition online for funded midwifery in the Yukon.   Check out our blog at www.yukonmidwifery.blogspot.com   * Note: The group was founded in October 2006 under the name Yukon Midwifery Lobby Group, and changed its name in April 2007 to better reflect its members and its purpose, as there was some confusion in the media as to whether it was a group of midwives.