SiX in the Press: State legislators are taking the maternal mortality crisis into their own hands
“State legislators play a critical role in advancing and protecting reproductive rights. While often, folks look at Congress or the administration or the courts, what we know, especially in 2024, that all of those are stalled,” said Jennifer Driver, Senior Director of Reproductive Rights at State Innovation Exchange. “Because of the makeup of the Congress, and the way that politics has just been so polarized, very little legislation passes. And so there’s only so much that Congress can do, whereas on the contrast, state legislators are on the front lines of this work. So much legislation moves faster.”