Below, we had the lawyer’s view. Now we have the reality:

Rashelle Perryman’s first two babies were born at Crittenden County Hospital in Marion, Ky., about 10 minutes from home.

But her third child, due in June, is to be born in Madisonville, 40 miles away in Hopkins County, because rising malpractice-insurance rates caused doctors at Crittenden County Hospital to stop delivering babies last year.

That forced the hospital to drop obstetrical services and Perryman to find a new doctor.

“I don’t like it at all,” she said about having to give birth in another county. She is a nurse at Crittenden County Hospital and its former obstetrics supervisor.

With Perryman’s first two deliveries, “I knew everybody here in the hospital, and I was comfortable,” she said. “And now I’m going somewhere where I don’t know anybody or how anything’s done.”

Perryman’s experience makes her a supporter of Senate Bill 1, aimed at lowering medical malpractice rates to keep doctors from leaving Kentucky or from dropping risky specialties.