Sep 9, 2026 · 45 min · 11 segments
Navigating a midwife license suspension is every practitioner's nightmare. Salli Gonzalez shares the reality of her experience. Salli joins us to discuss the sudden news of her license suspension…
It was dated March 11th, and it's basically saying that they have suspended her license with, this was without a hearing, okay? And it says that the emergency action follows investigations into two cases, and the both cases are from 2023.
The second complaint came in 2024, but they're claiming that she's suddenly a danger.
If that's the case, they've had these investigations sitting in their docket for years.
Yeah
... suspend her at the time? So then the next paragraph says, "In addition," and this is all pretextual, "TDLR was made aware of social media discussion between Gonzales and another midwife discussing a clinical situation involving several complications that would typically require a transfer recommendation under Texas midwifery laws and rules." And I think that's assuming a lot, and also not true.
And it's, "In response, Gonzales stated, 'Those things are not concerning to me.'" And so TDLR determined that Gonzales' response, remember, this is her Facebook comment to an anonymous post, and failure to identify issues regarding escalation could place pregnant clients and unborn children at risk.
I mean, it's completely ridiculous because [laughs] they're stating that she gave the wrong advice on a Facebook post.
Since when do the licensing standards require that if you're just having a casual conversation you need to be following some arbitrarily pretend made-up standard of care in your profession? So does that mean lawyers who are not on LinkedIn or who are on LinkedIn or Twitter or Facebook or doctors, they have to apply the law to their speech? This is stupid.
And dangerous, that this is, this is totally-
...
this is thought policing.
This is a problem.
Yes.
It was dated March 11th, and it's basically saying that they have suspended her license with, this was without a hearing, okay? And it says that the emergency action follows investigations into two cases, and the both cases are from 2023.
The second complaint came in 2024, but they're claiming that she's suddenly a danger.
If that's the case, they've had these investigations sitting in their docket for years.
Yeah
... suspend her at the time? So then the next paragraph says, "In addition," and this is all pretextual, "TDLR was made aware of social media discussion between Gonzales and another midwife discussing a clinical situation involving several complications that would typically require a transfer recommendation under Texas midwifery laws and rules." And I think that's assuming a lot, and also not true.
And it's, "In response, Gonzales stated, 'Those things are not concerning to me.'" And so TDLR determined that Gonzales' response, remember, this is her Facebook comment to an anonymous post, and failure to identify issues regarding escalation could place pregnant clients and unborn children at risk.
I mean, it's completely ridiculous because [laughs] they're stating that she gave the wrong advice on a Facebook post.
Since when do the licensing standards require that if you're just having a casual conversation you need to be following some arbitrarily pretend made-up standard of care in your profession? So does that mean lawyers who are not on LinkedIn or who are on LinkedIn or Twitter or Facebook or doctors, they have to apply the law to their speech? This is stupid.
And dangerous, that this is, this is totally-
...
this is thought policing.
This is a problem.
Yes.
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