Kristin Lyerly: “The federal funding, a big piece of it, was literally saving…”

“ACOG getting out of the federal funding business and saying, we don't want those strings attached. Right. Because we know that we can't do the work. The federal funding, a big piece of it, was literally saving moms' lives. It was a program called aim. So what ACOG did was refuse the federal funding, take that program, put it somewhere else, and then start developing it in a much more visionary, future focused way.” (01:14–01:22)

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