Harris Speaks To Family Of Woman Who Died Under Georgia Abortion Ban
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The Democratic presidential nominee appeared at a live-streamed event hosted by Oprah Winfrey that was clearly targeted at persuadable women.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday addressed the family of a young woman who died in what a ProPublica investigation revealed was a preventable death resulting from Georgia’s ultra-restrictive abortion law.
It was the first time the family had spoken out since the investigative news outlet reported this week on Amber Nicole Thurman’s death after the 28-year-old left the state in 2022 to secure the abortion pill and could not receive the care she needed from a Georgia hospital when a complication arose.
“This story is a story that is, sadly, not the only story of what has been happening since these bans have taken place,” Harris told the woman’s mother and sister, who were seated in the audience for a live-streamed campaign event hosted by media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
“And in state after state, including yours, these abortion bans have been passed that criminalize health care providers — in a couple of states, prison for life, Oprah, prison for life ... for a doctor or a nurse providing health care,” Harris said, blaming her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, for appointing the U.S. Supreme Court justices who would help overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022. “Here’s the problem with that — so she’s on death’s door before you actually decide to give her help ... like, literally a doctor or nurse has to say she might die any minute?”
The woman’s mother, Shanette, spoke out for the first time, delivering an emotional account of losing her daughter in what a medical examiner deemed a preventable death after doctors waited 20 hours to perform a surgical procedure that may have saved her life. Georgia law criminalizes practitioners who perform abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
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