Harris says strict abortion laws lead to ‘predictable’ suffering for women

ATLANTA — Vice President Harris called former President Donald Trump the “architect” of a health care crisis caused by a rollback of access to abortion in various states following the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Speaking in Atlanta Friday, Harris called tougher abortion laws “immoral” and slammed Republicans for what she called “longstanding neglect” around maternal mortality.

“These hypocrites want to start talking about, ‘This is in the best interest of women and children,'” she said. “Well, where’ve you been? ... How dare they? How dare they? Come on.”

As Harris tries to capitalize on the abortion issue on the campaign trail, on Friday she referenced reporting from ProPublica about two Georgia women whose deaths, after the state's new abortion law, were deemed “preventable” by a state committee of maternal health experts.

The investigations published this week tell the stories of two women, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, who died from complications related to seeking abortions in the aftermath of Georgia’s strict law that effectively bans most abortions with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother.

“There is a word — preventable — and there is another word: predictable,” Harris said. “And the reality is for every story here of the suffering under Trump abortion bans, there are so many of the stories we're not hearing where suffering is happening every day in our country.”

Trump has touted his nomination of Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the constitutional right to abortion.

Thurman and Miller died from complications that arose after their bodies failed to fully expel all of the fetal tissue after medication abortions, according to records reviewed by ProPublica. Thurman