Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to New Report Revealing Georgia’s Abortion Bans Caused ‘Preventable’ Deaths  - Reproductive Freedom for All®

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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to New Report Revealing Georgia’s Abortion Bans Caused ‘Preventable’ Deaths 

For Immediate Release: Monday, September 16, 2024

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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to New Report Revealing Georgia’s Abortion Bans Caused ‘Preventable’ Deaths 

Washington, DC — This morning, new reporting from ProPublica revealed that “at least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state.” Twenty-eight-year-old Amber Nicole Thurman was forced to travel to North Carolina for an abortion due to Georgia’s ban on care before most people even know they are pregnant. She died after experiencing rare and severe complications once she returned home. Though she sought medical care in Georgia, that care was delayed as the state’s abortion ban threatened any doctor who violated the Georgia law with prosecution and up to a decade in prison. An official state committee, including ten doctors, has since concluded that Thurman’s death was “preventable”—marking the first time an abortion-related death was officially deemed so, according to ProPublica.

Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement in response:

“Amber would be alive right now if it wasn’t for Donald Trump and Brian Kemp’s abortion ban. They have blood on their hands. These devastating bans not only blocked Amber from accessing an abortion in her state, but they also delayed the routine, life-saving care she later needed, leaving her to suffer and die. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can and must win a reproductive freedom majority in Congress so Kamala Harris can sign a bill restoring a federal right to abortion ending bans like Georgia’s.”

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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.