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doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.13.1.147
<p>I do not like the phrase nursing and midwifery.…To me it implies that midwifery is specialized nursing. It is nursing.</p><p>—Comment on Committee on Organization questionnaire, 1954</p><p>No other country except the United States is struggling with the mistaken concept that midwifery is nursing or that midwifery is an extension of nursing. We are midwives with a nursing background.</p><p>—Lucille Woodville, 1974</p><p>I totally agree that we [nurse-midwifery] must stay within nursing. A divided house will not be able to withstand strong opposition and change.</p><p>—Sharon Rising, 1973</p><p>We always knew we were two different professions.</p><p>—Ernestine Wiedenbach, CNM, 1979</p>
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