On Friday, Keith Ellison, the Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee, speaking at a training session for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, yelled, “Women are dying because we are losing elections! We don’t have the right to lose a damn election! We have to win! We have to win!” Ellison is pushing single-payer health care.
Ellison reportedly referred to maternal mortality rates in Missouri and Texas; Missouri’s maternal death rate was 19.9 deaths per 100,00 births in 2016. The Hill notes, “That rate places Missouri on par with countries like Belize and worse than poorer countries like Moldova and Costa Rica, the Kansas City Star reported last December.”
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