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On the recordMay 5, 2021
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.
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

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Tlaib discusses the high infant mortality rate in her community and its racial disparities.

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