Fact Check: Are Pro-Life Laws Killing Young Women? Here's the Truth
The tragic death of Amber Thurman has become a political football — and one the left has been running with quite shamelessly during the 2024 election cycle as proof that overturning Roe v. Wade has cost women their lives.
Thurman, a resident of Georgia, had “taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body,” a ProPublica report from September alleged.
“She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C,” the report claimed. “But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison.
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