{"id":319331,"date":"2024-09-25T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=319331"},"modified":"2024-09-24T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T23:31:58","slug":"healthcare-workers-narrative-death-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/healthcare-workers-narrative-death-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Just a lie’: Healthcare workers call out false narrative on woman’s death after abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just over a week ago, ProPublica released an article blaming the death of a young Georgia mom, Amber Thurman, on Georgia’s pro-life law<\/a>. After obtaining the abortion pill regimen from a facility in North Carolina in the summer of 2022, she returned home and began to experience complications. She soon showed signs of infection. At the hospital, Thurman was treated with a regimen of antibiotics for sepsis, but a D&C to remove the retained fetal tissue from her incomplete abortion of 9-week twins was delayed for unexplained reasons, until her condition grew so critical that a hysterectomy was attempted. Thurman did not survive the surgery.<\/p>\n

In that article, ProPublica falsely claimed that D&Cs are a felony in Georgia except in limited circumstances. But D&Cs, which are used for various gynecological purposes, are allowed even in states with pro-life laws \u2014 unless used to intentionally kill a child in the womb<\/em>. And in Thurman’s case, the medical emergency portion of Georgia’s law would have allowed an induced abortion on a living preborn child<\/em> in an emergency like sepsis.<\/p>\n