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Rarely does Alabama have the opportunity to crash the top 10 among states in anything — unless we’re talking football and faith, of course. And food.

Certainly not in education (though props to educators and students statewide for the rise in test scores) . Certainly not in access to quality healthcare with so many rural hospitals dying or on life support ; maternal health or infant mortality, where we’re dead last.

Saving lives just doesn’t seem to be our thing, sadly.

Alabama lawmakers can — must — alter that egregious narrative in 2026. They can and must save lives — the lives of Alabama men facing prostate cancer.

Men who may not get tested for the disease because of cost or l

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