As a current practicing Labor and Delivery nurse in a hospital setting, I am in full support of CPMs having the right to carry and administer medications. To improve maternal mortality and morbidity rates, mothers and infants must have access to certain medications. CPMs frequently practice in areas far away from hospitals and need certain medications to treat emergency situations, like a postpartum hemorrhage. CPMs are trained on how to carry, administer, and monitor response to medications.  CPMs administering routine and necessary  medications will decrease strain on hospitals when homebirth clients have to go into a hospital to receive an injection. America has one of the worst maternal morbidity rate in the developed world. Allowing CPMs to function fully as they have been trained will only improve maternal outcomes. Please give them the right to administer medications.