Vice-president Kamala Harris said the policies of her opponent Donald Trump were to blame for the death of a 28-year-old mother in Georgia who was denied lifesaving abortion care under the state’s six-week ban.
“These are the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions,” she said in a statement responding to the shocking report in ProPublica.
A state medical review committee deemed Thruman’s death “preventable”, and determined that there was a “good chance” she would have survived had she been provided a D&C – a procedure to remove fetal tissue from inside the uterus – earlier, according to ProPublica. As reported, Thurman’s last words to her mother before she died were: “Promise me you’ll take care of my son.”
“This young mother should be alive, raising her son, and pursuing her dream of attending nursing school,” said Harris, who has made protecting what’s left of abortion access a prominent feature of her presidential campaign. “This is exactly what we feared when Roe was struck down.”
“Women are bleeding out in parking lots, turned away from emergency rooms, losing their ability to ever have children again. Survivors of rape and incest are being told they cannot make decisions about what happens next to their bodies,” she continued. “And now women are dying.”
Harris warned Americans not to trust Trump as he tries to recast himself as a moderate on abortion. As president, he appointed three conservative supreme court justices who were decisive in overturning Roe.
As a candidate, Trump has alternately bragged about his role delivering abortion foes the biggest political victory in a half-century, and complaining that Republican extremism on the issue could cost them the election. He has said he would not sign a federal ban on abortion, but his position has shifted.
“If Donald Trump gets the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban, and these horrific realities will multiply,” Harris said. “We must pass a law to restore reproductive freedom. When I am President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law. Lives depend on it.”
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