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Few mothers have served in the Michigan Legislature while raising children
BY ANNA LIZ NICHOLS, MICHIGAN ADVANCE MICHIGAN—When Debbie Stabenow was serving in the Michigan House in 1980, she did something that had never been done by another legislator in the state: She gave birth during her term. “I wasn’t trying to be the first …