By Staff
WASHINGTON - Cass County's congressman, U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, Thursday introduced legislation to improve prenatal care for women and boost research into why one in eight American babies is born early.
Upton, R-St. Joseph, and California Democrat Rep. Anna Eshoo drafted the bipartisan Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who Deliver Infants Early Act, or "PREEMIE Act."
Similar legislation has been introduced in the Senate by Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.