Harris: Abortion-Related Deaths After Roe 'Are The Consequences Of Donald Trump's Actions'

Vice President Kamala Harris has suggested that former President Donald Trump is to blame for women dying because they could not access abortion care after Roe v. Wave was overturned two years ago.

“This young mother should be alive, raising her son, and pursuing her dream of attending nursing school,” Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, said in a statement released Tuesday morning. “This is exactly what we feared when Roe was struck down.”

Harris was referring to Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old mother who reportedly died in 2022 after a hospital in Georgia delayed lifesaving medical care when she experienced complications from a medication abortion. Thurman’s story was published in a riveting report from ProPublica stating that at least two women died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in Georgia, which has instituted a six-week abortion ban. The ProPublica report focused on Thurman’s death, although the publication said it will share details about the second abortion-related death in the days ahead.

“In more than 20 states, Trump Abortion Bans are preventing doctors from providing basic medical care,” Harris said in her statement. “Women are bleeding out in parking lots, turned away from emergency rooms, losing their ability to ever have children again. Survivors of rape and incest are being told they cannot make decisions about what happens next to their bodies. And now women are dying. These are the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions.”

Harris made similar remarks last week during a presidential debate, reminding voters that Trump nominated three of the conservative Supreme Court justices who rolled back nearly 50 years of federal abortion protections by striking down