Pro-life leaders say the tragic death of a Georgia woman has sparked misleading headlines and political posturing by presidential nominee Kamala Harris, arguing the real issue lies with abortion pills, not Georgia's law. The Georgia law in question, these leaders say, includes an exception for the life of the mother and is misapplied. The tragic case involves a 28-year-old Georgia woman, Amber Nicole Thurman, who traveled to North Carolina in 2022 to obtain the abortion pill but faced complications when she returned to Georgia, where abortions are prohibited after a heartbeat is detected. Thurman was vomiting, bleeding, and fainting. Unable to travel back to North Carolina, which has fewer abortion restrictions, Thurman was transported by ambulance to a local Georgia hospital where she requested a dilation-and-curettage (D&C) procedure to remove the remains of the dead unborn child. The hospital, though, delayed the procedure several hours, unsure if it was breakin...
