Tex. Occupations Code § 203.003: FINDINGS.

The legislature finds:

(1) a parent has the responsibility and right to give birth where and with whom the parent chooses;

(2) childbirth is a natural process of the human body and not a disease; and

(3) midwifery has been practiced in this state since the days of the Republic.

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.