Pro Publica is a donor-funded news outlet whose donors include pro-abortion foundations. This week Pro Publica reported on the deaths of two women in Georgia following chemical abortion.
This is what has been reported, and what Kamala Harris spoke about Sept. 20 on a campaign stop in Atlanta. Harris claimed “Trump abortion bans” had killed two women.
Amber Thurman - https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
Amber Thurman was 28, a single mother of a 6-year-old son. She learned she was pregnant with twins in the summer of 2022.
Georgia’s Heartbeat law, protecting babies with detectable heartbeats, was enacted July 20, 2002. At that point, Ms. Thurman’s pregnancy had just passed the cutoff.
Hoping the law would be overturned or blocked, she waited until she was nine weeks pregnant to make an appointment for a surgical abortion in North Carolina. She drove there with a friend on Aug. 13. They arrived late to an abortion business, where she was told she had missed her appointment and could not have a surgical abortion that day. They offered her abortion pills. She took the first pills, mifepristone, then returned to Georgia.
Days after she took the second pill, misoprostol, she began having intense pain and heavy bleeding. On Aug. 18, she passed out and her boyfriend called an ambulance. She was taken to Piedmont Henry Hospital in Stockbridge, GA.
At the hospital, her white blood count was high and her blood pressure dangerously ow. She passed out again, falling and hitting her head. An ultrasound showed possible tissue in her uterus. At 9:38 p.m., she was given intravenous antibiotics.
She was taken to surgery at 2 p.m. the following day. A D&C was performed, followed by a hysterectomy. Her heart stopped during surgery. The story does not list an exact cause of death.
A committee that studies maternal mortality labeled her death “preventable” and recommended that all hospitals have procedures on how to treat septic abortion.
Candi Miller https://www.propublica.org/article/candi-miller-abortion-ban-death-georgia
Candi Miller, 41, mother of three, was previously diagnosed with lupus, diabetes and hypertension and her doctor had reportedly warned her not to get pregnant again. When she did, in the fall of 2022, she ordered abortion pills online. The abortion did not expel all the fetal tissue and she became ill.
Her family watched her suffer for days until they found her dead on the morning of Nov. 12.
An autopsy found retained fetal tissue in her womb and a lethal combination of painkillers, including fentanyl, in her system. Miller had no history of drug use, the medical records state. A medical examiner was unable to determine the manner of death.
Her family later told a coroner she hadn’t visited a doctor “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.”