Sarah Huckabee Sanders brags that Arkansas is the "most pro-life" state in America, but under her watch Arkansas ranks second-worst in the nation for infant deaths and fourth-worst for maternal mortality. Over 90% of maternal deaths in the state are preventable with basic healthcare, yet Sanders refuses to give new mothers a full year of Medicaid after birth, a simple fix every other state has already made. Even when members of her own party begged her to save mothers' lives, she refused to budge.
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