Hi John xxxxxx,

We are heartbroken and outraged. But we knew we’d eventually have to share this story...

We didn’t know which state it would be about or the name of the woman, but we knew there would come a day when a woman would die from lack of access to modern reproductive healthcare. Yesterday, ProPublica reported that Amber Thurman, a 28-year-old mother in Georgia, has died because doctors would not help her manage complications during her pregnancy.

Thurman had taken an abortion pill but was experiencing complications. She checked into a Georgia Hospital in need of a routine – and life-saving – procedure called a dilation and curettage, or D&C.

According to ProPublica:

“Her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison. Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail.

It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.”

We need to make something clear: in Georgia, like ALL abortion-ban states, the legislature is overwhelmingly MALE.

MEN

SHOULD NOT

BE MAKING LAWS

ABOUT WOMEN’S BODIES

We have been outraged for long enough. Our outrage must come with action. At Her Bold Move, we will not rest until each and every lawmaker who worked to pass abortion bans is replaced with a pro-choice woman.

We cannot do this work alone. We depend on donations like yours to make this work possible. Our candidates are often outspent by their opponents, but we work to help them fill the gaps.

Please turn your outrage into action. Women MUST fight back. There have been too many tragic stories of women missing out on STANDARD MODERN HEALTHCARE in the United States – made possible by a lack of representation in the rooms of power where these unconscionable decisions are being made. Join our fight and donate to Her Bold Move today. →

For ALL women,

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