Kamala Harris has blamed the death of a Georgia woman on Donald Trump , claiming the death could have been prevented if the state did not have an abortion ban. Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, died after failing to receive adequate care when she experienced rare negative side effects to an abortion pill, which she had to travel out of state to obtain. She is one of two known women in Georgia to die as a result of their abortion ban, according to investigative outlet ProPublica.
Georgia is one of 14 states that have enacted a near-total abortion ban since the Dobbs decision in June 2022, which was made possible by Trump's conservative judge appointments to the Supreme Court. Twenty-seven others have limits based on gestational limits, which OB-GYNs have described as arbitrary and abusive. ProPublica reported that an official state committee concluded that Thurman's death was "preventable.
" "This is exactly what we feared when Roe was struck down," she said. "These are the consequences of Donald Trump ’s actions." The southern state, alongside neighbors Florida and South Carolina, have abortion banned after six-weeks, a timeframe in which women don't usually know they are pregnant.
That was exactly the case for Thurman, who learned she was pregnant after the six week mark had passed, which was just days after Georgia's abortion ban – which offers vague and narrow exceptions to save a pregnant person's life – took effect in July 2022. Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) said at the time he wa.