Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly claimed Friday that Amber Thurman died because of Georgia’s pro-life law protecting unborn babies, falsely stating that Thurman’s doctors could have gone to jail for “providing Amber the care that she needed.”
“Under the Trump abortion ban, her doctors could have faced up to a decade in prison for providing Amber the care she needed,” Harris claimed on Friday, as she spoke in Atlanta, Georgia. “Understand what a law like this means. Doctors have to wait until the patient is at death’s door before they take action.”
Harris was referring to a Georgia woman who died due to complications from the abortion pill, mifepristone. Following a ProPublica report on Thurman’s death, media outlets, abortion activists, and Democratic lawmakers have used Thurman’s death, and the death of another Georgia woman named Candi Miller, to claim…
