Vice President Kamala Harris used a campaign stop in Atlanta on Friday to tie former President Donald Trump to Georgia’s abortion ban and recent maternal deaths as the campaign continues to drum up support related to reproductive rights.
An investigation from ProPublica this week revealed that at least two Georgia women died because of delayed emergency medical care under the state’s abortion ban — the first time a “preventable” maternal death has been linked to the post-Dobbs abortion bans.
“This is a health care crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis,” said Harris. “Now we know that at least two women — and those are only the stories we know here in the state of Georgia — died, died because of a Trump abortion ban.”
Harris spoke to the the family of one of those women, Amber Nicole Thurman, during a campaign event with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday. Thurman, 28, died of sepsis after she was unable to receive a necessary dilation and curettage until it was too late. Georgia physicians risk prison time for performing abortions prohibited under state law. […]
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