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G. K. Butterfield: “We are the only industrialized nation with a maternal mortality rate that is on the rise.”

On the recordOctober 5, 2021
We are the only industrialized nation with a maternal mortality rate that is on the rise.
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G. K. Butterfield
Democratic · North Carolina

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Butterfield highlights the troubling trend in maternal mortality in the U.S.

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