Joining me now for a common ground conversation, Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas,

Democratic Governor Westmore of Maryland, and philanthropist Olivia Walton, the founder of

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America. Welcome to all of you, and Happy Mother's Day to the moms

at the table. Happy Mother's Day, we are honored to have you all here for what we think is really a critical and vital conversation

about maternal health, and I know that that is what brings us all together today.

Olivia, I want to start with you because you lead organizations that focus on the health

of mothers and children, so I want you to really set the stage for us.

Some of the statistics are staggering.

In the United States, the reported maternal death rate has doubled in just the last 20 years.

The CDC says 80% of these deaths are preventable.

What more can be done to prevent these deaths? How do we as a society come together

to achieve that? It is shocking, but the good news is we really do know how to fix it. So mortality

has more than doubled. That means it was more dangerous for me to give birth to my babies,

my three in the last eight years than it was for my mom to give birth to me in the 80s.

That's crazy and it is preventable.

As you said, the CDC consistently finds that over 80% of these deaths could have been prevented if these mothers could have gotten care.

So what we're launching is Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America.

We are a nonpartisan national campaign uniting a broad coalition of business leaders, of faith

leaders, of employers, of policymakers and health care providers with one clear goal, which is to cut

the U.S. maternal mortality rate in half in five years.

It sounds audacious, but I'm confident in large part, thanks to the incredible leadership here at this table, that we really can get this done.

At Heartland Forward, we have this program called the Maternal and Child Health Center

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