Sec. 203.003. FINDINGS. The legislature finds: (1) a parent has the responsibility and right to give birth where and with whom the parent chooses; (2) childbirth is a natural process of the human body and not a disease; and (3) midwifery has been practiced in this state since the days of the Republic. Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.