New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 4 - CHIROPRACTIC PRACTITIONERS
Part 18 - PRACTICE PROCEDURES
Section 16.4.18.10 - OBSTETRICS

A. No chiropractor shall undertake to deliver a human child or to assist the mother of the child during such delivery, except in cases of emergency or where another practitioner of the healing arts whose license authorizes him or her to deliver human children is present and actively participating in the delivery.

B. Nothing in this regulation shall preclude a chiropractor from undertaking to provide prenatal care to a pregnant woman provided that the chiropractor affirmatively advises the woman that it would be unlawful for the chiropractor to deliver the child and that the patient should make arrangements with another practitioner of the healing arts whose license authorizes him or her to deliver human children to attend the woman during her delivery; and provided further that during the course of the delivery the chiropractor refrains from any cutting of human tissues, including but not limited to the cutting of the umbilical cord.

C. Nothing in this regulation shall be construed to prevent a licensed chiropractor from obtaining a license in another healing arts profession which includes the delivery of human babies in the normal scope of its practice and from practicing obstetrics pursuant to such a second healing arts license.