Fact check: Harris LIES abortion restriction for Georgia woman’s death

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Fact check: Harris blames abortion restriction for Georgia woman’s death

Vice President Kamala Harris, while on the campaign trail Tuesday, highlighted the tragic death of Georgia mother Amber Thurman, 28, who died as a result of not being treated for complications from a medication abortion shortly after the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

Thurman, whose son was six years old at the time of her death, is the first recorded case of pregnancy-related death after presenting at a hospital with severe complications following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.

“This young mother should be alive, raising her son, and pursuing her dream of attending nursing school,” said Harris in reaction to the publication about Thurman’s story by ProPublica on Monday.

Harris used Thurman’s death as an example of the consequences of former President Donald Trump’s role in appointing three justices to the Supreme Court, which led to the Dobbs decision.

Here is everything you need to know about Thurman’s death and pregnancy complications in states with abortion bans.

Fact check: Harris blames abortion restriction for Georgia woman’s death - Washington Examiner

Vice President Kamala Harris, while campaigning, referenced the death of Georgia mother Amber Thurman, 28, following abortion pill complications. Here is all you need to know about the tragic case.

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What happened to Amber Thurman?​

Thurman pursued an abortion shortly after the Dobbs decision came down and Georgia’s law prohibiting induced abortion after six-weeks gestation took effect.

Hospital records obtained by the outlet confirmed Thurman was approximately nine weeks pregnant with twins when she was given the abortion agent mifepristone at a clinic in North Carolina.

She took the second abortion agent, misoprostol, the next day, as per protocol.

On the evening of Aug. 18, 2022, several days after her North Carolina appointment, Thurman presented at the hospital with bleeding and signs of a severe infection due to retained pregnancy tissue, or what is medically called “retained products of conception.”

There was no fetal cardiac activity detected when Thurman presented at the hospital, meaning that the fetuses were no longer alive and Thurman was no longer pregnant.

 

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How was Thurman treated when she arrived at the hospital?​

American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs said, in reaction to the case, that “any first-year resident could make” the diagnosis that this was an infection due to an incomplete abortion, the standard of care for which is immediate antibiotics and a dilation and curettage, also known as a D&C.

A D&C involves dilating the patient’s cervix and surgically removing the retained products of conception by scraping the inside of the uterus. The process is used to treat both natural miscarriages and induced abortions.

But Thurman only received antibiotics three hours after presenting with infection symptoms and a D&C was not performed until approximately 20 hours after she arrived at the hospital in critical condition. She died on the operating table during the procedure.

“This is one of the most clearcut cases of medical malpractice (based on the information available publicly) that we have ever seen,” said AAPLOG in an X post reviewing Thurman’s case. “Standard of care on her arrival was IMMEDIATE D&C and initiation of antibiotics. Had this been done, she most likely would be alive today.”

AAPLOG is a professional medical association that is explicitly anti-abortion and was involved in the litigation against the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone.

The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, which supports no legal restraints or gestational age limits for abortion, has not weighed in on Thurman’s case. Planned Parenthood has also not commented on Thurman’s death.