Regardless of whether you agree with her politics — as a freshman member of “the Squad,” it’s somewhere between Jeremy Corbyn and Josef Stalin — congresswoman Cori Bush of Missouri has an eminently admirable personal story. She survived a horrific alleged rape and homelessness only to become a nurse, a minister, and now a member of Congress. But perhaps most incredible is her story of motherhood, which she testified about in the House Oversight Committee to advocate for better black maternal care.
Every day, Black birthing people and our babies die because our doctors don’t believe our pain. My children almost became a statistic. I almost became a statistic.
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