This is an incredibly emotional and personal issue, just as a mother myself and also as a Detroiter, where we see our babies, you know, approximately 15 out of every 1,000 of our babies are not surviving or not getting to their first birthday.
Tlaib discusses the high infant mortality rate in her community and its racial disparities.
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