Bill providing extended maternal care, passes House floor
“We don’t want having a baby to be a death sentence”
Mar. 15—The risk of a woman dying as a result of pregnancy or childbirth is about one in 4,200 in Oklahoma compared with about one in 25,000 in California, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Such a discrepancy poses a challenge to the state which ranks No. 2 in the nation for the number of people without health…