this. as more than half of the electorate, women are going to be the deciders of who the next president is, and this is an issue that s going to be right up there with democracy, with education, as women head to the polls. rev, i have a physician friend who doesn t pay a ton of attention to politics, but she said all americans are going to become fluent in a language of maternal mortality. we re going to become a country that for the first time in a long time, everyone, everyone is talking about our rates of maternal mortality because they re going to be a stain on the country, an embarrassment. of course we like to focus on the women. we ve given a lot of air time to the plaintiffs in the texas case. but just the numbers and the trends will be inescapable for all americans. no doubt about it. and it s clearly something that drives women of all races and