Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey invited the family of the late Amber Nicole Thurman to a town hall meeting to speculate whether she died as a result of Georgia's six-week abortion law.
As Breitbart News' Katherine Hamilton and The Federalist's David Harsanyi point out, the liberal media outlet ProPublica story In it, the court blamed Thurman's death on abortion laws, without any direct evidence.
Thurman contracted an infection after taking the abortion pills while fetal tissue was still in her uterus, and her death was deemed “preventable,” though ProPublica speculated, without actual documentation, that it may have been because doctors delayed a procedure called a D&C.
ProPublica's Kavitha Surana incorrectly claimed that a P&C was illegal under the circumstances, though farther into the article she acknowledged that “it's not clear from the available records why the doctor waited to perform a D&C.”
But ProPublica and the Harris campaign continued to argue that Thurman's death was the result of a Georgia law and that former President Donald Trump was to blame for nominating conservative Supreme Court justices who overturned that law. Roe v. Wade It set a precedent and allowed states to make their own decisions about abortion laws.
At a campaign event in Farmington Hills, Michigan, Oprah Winfrey introduced the Thurman family and recounted the story of Amber Thurman's death as if the ProPublica story about Georgia law was true (1:02:33 below).
During arguments in the Thurman case, O'Prey Winfrey strongly implied, but did not explicitly state, that abortion laws caused doctors to delay providing cervical cancer screening.
Ms Thurman's grieving family spoke out against her death, expressing outrage and speculating about the responsibility of the six-week abortion ban, bringing the audience to tears.
Winfrey said she “just recently found out” about Amber Thurman's cause of death, and acknowledged that the ProPublica article was the only source of the claim that Thurman's death was linked to Georgia's abortion law.
Kamala Harris praised the family's “courage.” Roe v. Wade He called for state bans on abortion, calling it a national health care crisis.
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