AUGUSTA, Maine, March 20 -- The Maine Senate Democrats issued the following news on behalf of Maine State Sen. Mike Tipping, D-Orono: * * * Bill to better protect the public when hospital birthing centers are slated to close advances through Maine Legislature LD 2189, a bill recommended by the Commission on Hospitals and Health Care to better protect patients and the public when birthing centers are slated to close advanced unanimously in the Senate today on a vote of 32 to 0, following a vot  more