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Dora Drake: “We cannot legislate truly based on data, whether it's…”

Featuring: Dora Drake, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 4

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Published | Video Starts at 42:02

This amendment, if it passes, means that regardless of where you're at in the state, you cannot get the resources that you were meant to have. We cannot legislate truly based on data, whether it's dealing with health care, especially for women that are going through maternal health issues and maternal deaths. We can't create legislation specifically on that because of sex. We cannot make legislation based on the issues that we talked about, housing based on just everything that we've talked about. (42:02–42:15)

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Asserts that legislation cannot be based on data regarding maternal health issues and deaths.

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