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Hey John,

This week, ProPublica published articles that revealed "at least two women in Georgia died after they couldn't access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state."

Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller would still be alive if it wasn't for Georgia's abortion ban. Read and share their stories. [[link removed]]

Twenty-eight-year-old Amber Nicole Thurman was a Georgia resident who was forced to travel to North Carolina for an abortion due to Georgia's abortion ban. She died in Georgia after experiencing a delay in emergency medical care to treat rare and severe complications once she returned home. This devastating ban not only blocked her from accessing an abortion in her state, but also needlessly delayed the routine, life-saving care she later needed, leaving her to suffer and die. It was determined that this delay had a "large" impact on her death.

Candi Miller was also a Georgia resident who could not access abortion care under Georgia law, so she decided to self-manage her abortion. When she started experiencing rare complications, she was afraid to go to the hospital for fear of being criminally charged. She suffered for days at home and died.

An official state maternal health committee found both Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller's deaths to be "preventable" and blamed the state's abortion ban.

These tragedies confirm the real and deadly consequences that Trump and the Republican Party's abortion bans are having on pregnant people. Abortion bans kill people. Trump, Governor Brian Kemp, and the extremist GOP lawmakers who enabled them are responsible for the deaths of both Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller.

Black women are three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. They disproportionately face barriers to accessing reproductive health care—including facing racial bias, discrimination, and systemic inequalities in health care. Georgia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country and lacks OB/GYN services across the state.

Medical committees often examine such cases with a two-year lag, so this is the very beginning of understanding and investigating the deadly toll of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade .

Please read and share Amber and Candi's stories. [[link removed]] These are some of the first stories we know of, and there are likely many more that have not yet come to light.

Debi Kosyla Edwards
Georgia Action Council Member

NARAL Pro-Choice America is now Reproductive Freedom for All . Our name has changed, but our mission remains the same: protecting and advancing freedom for every body.

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