Diane Goslin, PA Midwife, Still Waiting
By Danell Swim
April 25, 2008
Diane Goslin misses the feel of a pregnant belly beneath her hands, the tiny beats of life pulsing inside.
Months have passed since she guided a woman through the pains of childbirth in the way she believes nature intended: at home, without drugs, surrounded by family and friends.
“I feel like every cell of my being is dying,” said Goslin, 50, who has helped deliver more than 5,000 babies in the last quarter-century, many to women in Lancaster County’s Amish communities.
Since August, Goslin has been under a cease-and-desist order from the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine, which charged her with practicing medicine and midwifery without a license. The action was spurred by the 2005 death of an Amish baby she delivered. The county coroner determined she was not at fault.
Goslin is fighting the order and supporters her case is about larger, more fundamental questions:
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