This isn't the case at all. He is chairman of the board of the Illinois State Medical Society and therfore representing the Illinois State Medical Society. So it is OK for us to quote the ISMS when quoting Sprang.
Midwives are the safest health professional to assist normal women.
Clearly non-nurse midwifery is perfectly safe. Dr. Wagner is a neonatologist and perinatal epidemiologist. He is the former Director of Maternal and Child Health for the California State Department of Public Health. Dr. Wagner has also consulted repeatedly with the U.S. National Institute of Health and has testified before the U.S. Congress. Additionally he is a renouwned auther of five books and many medical journal articles and editorials.