Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to speak in Georgia to blame former President Donald Trump for two deaths in the state that she claims were caused by the state's abortion laws, though the causal relationship is questionable.
Georgia bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The New York Times Reported Governor Harris announced she would be speaking on Wednesday in response to allegations from liberal media outlet ProPublica that the law caused the deaths of two women.
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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Atlanta on Friday. A tale of two Georgia mothers She argues their deaths show the consequences of strict anti-abortion laws passed by Republicans after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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dead, ProPublica reported this weekThe deaths came just months after Georgia passed a law banning abortions after six weeks. Amber Thurman died of sepsis caused by a faulty medical abortion after waiting 20 hours at a hospital outside Atlanta. A second woman, Candy Miller, died in a hospital in the suburbs of Atlanta. Died after refusing medical treatment Due to complications from abortion pills.
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In her speech on Friday, Harris plans to call for restoring abortion rights at the federal level and cite the women's deaths as examples of the devastating impact of “Trump's anti-abortion laws,” according to a person familiar with her remarks.
Trump has not advocated for state-level abortion bans, and restrictions passed by conservative states have accompanied sweeping new laws in liberal states that guarantee abortion up until the moment of birth, often before that point.
Moreover, two examples that Harris highlighted during her campaign and plans to discuss on Friday are both questionable and both come from the same publication, ProPublica.
As Breitbart News' Katherine Hamilton pointed out on Wednesday, ProPublica Linked The death of Amber Thurman was put to the new law without clear evidence. After she paid for an abortion and developed an infection from fetal tissue still in her uterus, she went to hospital, where doctors delayed performing a procedure called a dilation and curettage (D&C).
ProPublica argued that the delay was due to a reluctance to risk violating new abortion laws, but later in the article acknowledged that “it is not clear from the available records” that this was the reason.
Hamilton noted that “abortion restrictions in the United States, particularly include There are exceptions for extreme medical emergencies and the life of the mother, and the court The verdict was given “These laws do not require 'imminence' or 'certainty' before a doctor can act to save a patient's life,” she said, adding that ProPublica “omitted key parts of the law that would have made it clear that state law would have adequately covered treating Thurman for sepsis after an incomplete medication abortion.”
In the second case, ProPublica acknowledges that Candy Miller “avoided doctors and went ahead with the abortion on her own.” She took the abortion pill, but unlike Thurman, she didn't take it under medical supervision. (Had she been properly treated by a doctor who knew about the life-threatening complications, she could have undergone dilation.) The autopsy also found a “deadly combination of painkillers,” including the dangerous opioid fentanyl, ProPublica says.
ProPublica said the state commission's report found Miller's death “preventable,” but when the paper says the commission condemned Georgia's abortion laws, it says anonymous members of the commission expressed their opinions and doesn't cite a summary of the commission's report, which ProPublica said it obtained but has not made public.
There is ongoing debate about the impact of abortion restrictions on women's health (abortion services have been deadly in some cases, such as the case of Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted of murder for providing an abortion in 2013).
Some have argued that states with stricter abortion restrictions put women at higher risk, but the example Kamala Harris gave isn't a clear-cut example, and her attempt to link it to President Trump is at odds with his actual policies.
Joel B. Pollack is executive editor of Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday It airs Sundays from 7:00pm-10:00pm ET (4:00pm-7:00pm PT) on SiriusXM Patriot. He is the author of the following books: Agenda: What President Trump Should Do in His First 100 Daysavailable for pre-order on Amazon. He also Trumpian virtue: The lessons and legacy of Donald Trump's presidencyavailable now on Audible. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter. Joel Pollack.
