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.
