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In this Dec. 12, 2016, photo, Gloria Chueca Puerto-Mendoza's daughter Lola's footprints are displayed, month by month, on a poster at UW Medical Center's neonatal intensive care unit in Seattle. Puerto-Mendoza was 18 when doctors first told her it would be difficult for her to ever get pregnant. Since childhood, she had suffered from endometriosis, a disease in which tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus grows outside it. Ruptured cysts wreaked havoc on her system. She’d had six surgeries to help relieve the pain. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times via AP)
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In this April 25, 2017, photo, Gloria Chueca Puerto-Mendoza holds her baby Lola Luz with her father Javier Chueca on a recent morning inside their home in Bremerton, Wash. Puerto-Mendoza was 18 when doctors first told her it would be difficult for her to ever get pregnant. Since childhood, she had suffered from endometriosis, a disease in which tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus grows outside it. Ruptured cysts wreaked havoc on her system. She’d had six surgeries to help relieve the pain. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times via AP)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017, photo, Gloria Chueca Puerto-Mendoza holds her baby Lola Luz in UW Medical Center's neonatal intensive care unit in Seattle. Puerto-Mendoza was 18 when doctors first told her it would be difficult for her to ever get pregnant. Since childhood, she had suffered from endometriosis, a disease in which tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus grows outside it. Ruptured cysts wreaked havoc on her system. She’d had six surgeries to help relieve the pain. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times via AP)
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Hillary Clinton speaks during the Children's Health Fund annual benefit in New York on May 23, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Texas Rangers designated hitter Shin-Soo Choo grounds out to first base against the Toronto Blue Jays during the third inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Saturday, May 27, 2017. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT. - In this April 17, 2017, photo, farmhands and people with autism harvest and bundle radishes at The Homestead Farm in Pleasant Hill, Iowa. (Rodney White/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT. - In this April 17, 2017, Lloyd Williams plants seeds at The Homestead Farm in Pleasant Hill, Iowa. (Rodney White/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT. - In this April 17, 2017, photo, Tony Hunter, plants vegetables at The Homestead Farm in Pleasant Hill, Iowa. (Rodney White/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT. - In this April 17, 2017, photo, onions are planted at The Homestead Farm in Pleasant Hill, Iowa. (Rodney White/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT - In this undated photo Doug and Robyn Pralle of Hampton pose for a photo next to their Cessna 183 plane in Hampton, Iowa. The couple recently started a non-profit organization called Compassion Flights to get North Iowa patients to other locations in the Midwest for medical treatment. (Mary Pieper/Globe-Gazette via AP)
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Texas Rangers' Austin Bibens-Dirkx pitches against the Toronto Blue Jays during third-inning baseball game action in Toronto, Friday, May 26, 2017. (Jon Blacker/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Philadelphia Phillies' Odubel Herrera hops after swinging and missing at a strike from Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Jake McGee during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, in Philadelphia. Colorado won 7-2. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, shakes hands with Dan Hilferty, president and chief executive officer of Independence Blue Cross, during Caron Treatment Center's Executive Luncheon on the Opioid Crisis at the headquarters of Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens to Dan Hilferty, president and chief executive officer of Independence Blue Cross speaks during Caron Treatment Center's Executive Luncheon on the Opioid Crisis at the headquarters of Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Illustration on Confederate soldiers buried in Arlington Cemetery by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Des Moines fire officials responded to a deadly fire at an apartment complex in Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, May 25, 2017. (Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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Firefighters responded to a deadly fire at an apartment complex in Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, May 25, 2017. (Rodney White/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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FILE - In this June 25, 2015 file photo, participants take part in a health care rally outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. A growing number of Americans age 40 and older think Medicare should cover the costs of long-term care for older adults, according to a poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, file photo, Blue Bridge Benefits LLC agent Patricia Sarabia, right, and Adolfo Briceno, left, with Spanish Speaking LLC, help a potential customer with Blue Cross Blue Shield at a kiosk promoting health insurance under the federal Affordable Care Act, at Compare Foods in Winston-Salem, N.C. People shopping for insurance through the Affordable Care Act in yet more regions will be facing higher prices and fewer choices in the coming year as insurance companies lay out their early plans for 2018. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina said Thursday, May 25, 2017, it wants a 23 percent price hike in 2018 because it doesn't expect crucial payments from the federal government to continue. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2013 file photo, former El Salvadoran military Col. Inocente Orlando Montano departs federal court, in Boston. Defense attorneys say medical care for Montano accused of helping to plot five killings is declining since his transfer to a new facility to await a final decision on his extradition. A lawyer for Morales said in a filing Tuesday, May 23, 2017, that routine blood sugar checks were missed and he has had a fever and other symptoms indicating that he could have a new infection. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
