On Tuesday morning, Elizabeth Catlin entered a not-guilty plea to all charges, setting into motion what’s sure to be a complex and closely-watched jury trial.
It was just a few nights before Christmas, in 2018, when Elizabeth Catlin — a trained midwife who had attended the births of several hundred local Mennonite babies over the years — was arrested at her Penn Yan, N.Y. home and handcuffed in front of her 8-year-old daughter for practicing midwifery without a state license.
Now, Catlin’s lawyer David Morabito — a criminal defense attorney more accustomed to defending “serial killers and hitmen,” he says — stands ready for trial. Advocates from across the country, meanwhile, find the breadth of charges “egregious” and “over the top,” with the charge of criminally negligent homicide, listed first on the 51-page indictment, most rattling.
Many see Catlin’s case as emblematic of how alternative-birth choices are viewed, for the most part, in America. “Criminalizing women for helping other women have babies tells us all that women still are not free to make our own health care decisions — even about something so extremely personal,” Cristen Pascucci, founder of the organization Birth Monopoly, previously told Yahoo Lifestyle following Catlin’s arrest.
“Here in the US, midwifery groups have no agreed-upon definition of a midwife,” the position statement reads. “There are three separate midwifery credentials … with differing levels of education and training. CNMs and CMs meet and exceed ICM’s minimum education standards. However, possibly as many as two-thirds of CPMs do not meet the ICM standards. Our health care partners and state lawmakers must work with us to ensure that no woman in the U.S.
“I’ve been blessed with piles of cards and letters with donations,” Catlin says, adding that many have donated to her GoFundMe page, currently at a sum of around $10,000. But as was noted in a letter sent to community members and posted on her fundraising page, “she is in immediate need of $75,000 to keep her case moving. The total amount needed is expected to be about $100,000…”
Martin and others have long placed blame on the local hospital system, Thompson Health, as it was someone on the executive staff at the Canandaigua branch, F.F. Thompson Hospital, according to Eifert, who called in a complaint against Catlin after she transferred the laboring mom there.
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