(225 ILCS 64/85)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 85. Prohibited practices.
    (a) A licensed certified professional midwife may not do any of the following:
        (1) administer prescription pharmacological agents intended to induce or augment labor;
        (2) administer prescription pharmacological agents to provide pain management;
        (3) use vacuum extractors or forceps;
        (4) prescribe medications;
        (5) provide out-of-hospital care to a childbearing individual who has had a previous
    
cesarean section;
        (6) perform abortions or surgical procedures, including, but not limited to, cesarean
    
sections and circumcisions, except for an emergency episiotomy;
        (7) knowingly accept responsibility for prenatal or intrapartum care of a client with
    
any of the following risk factors:
            (A) chronic significant maternal cardiac, pulmonary, renal, or hepatic disease;
            (B) malignant disease in an active phase;
            (C) significant hematological disorders, coagulopathies, or pulmonary embolism;
            (D) insulin requiring diabetes mellitus;
            (E) known maternal congenital abnormalities affecting childbirth;
            (F) confirmed isoimmunization, Rh disease with positive titer;
            (G) active tuberculosis;
            (H) active syphilis or gonorrhea;
            (I) active genital herpes infection 2 weeks prior to labor or in labor;
            (J) pelvic or uterine abnormalities affecting normal vaginal births, including
        
tumors and malformations;
            (K) alcoholism or alcohol abuse;
            (L) drug addiction or abuse; or
            (M) confirmed AIDS status.
    (b) A licensed certified professional midwife shall not administer Schedule II through IV controlled substances. Subject to a prescription by a health care professional, Schedule V controlled substances may be administered by licensed certified professional midwives.
(Source: P.A. 102-683, eff. 10-1-22.)