(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;

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         (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.