Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses Harris of ‘lying’ over Georgia woman who died after delayed abortion care

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the conspiracy-peddling congresswoman from Georgia, slammed Vice President Kamala Harris as a liar for linking a woman’s death to the state’s current abortion rules that all but outlaw the abortion.

“Kamala Harris is lying to women in GA right now!” Greene posted to X as Harris spoke to supporters in Atlanta last Friday. “She claims Amber Nicole Thurman died from an abortion ‘ban’ in GA. The TRUTH is Amber tragically died from taking abortion pills! And there is NO Trump abortion ‘ban.’ The Supreme Court gave states the right to make their own decisions.”

When the Trump-aligned conservative-majority Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned the federal law guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion, the decision-making power was given to individual states. Today, nearly one-third of US states have in place near-total abortion bans, with Georgia among the most severe. Last Friday, Harris pointed out to the Atlanta crowd that doctors in the Peachtree State face up to a decade in prison for providing abortion care outside of an extremely narrow set of exceptions.

Greene was referring to one of at least two Georgia women who died after receiving delayed abortion-related medical care, as nonprofit investigative news outlet ProPublicareported September 16. Four days after the report came out, Harris, while addressing attendees at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, brought up Thurman in order to highlight the very real dangers of the post-Roe v. Wade era.

“She was going to nursing school, raising her six-year-old son,” Harris said of the late 28-year-old. “… She had her plan, what she wanted to do for her son, for herself, for their future.  And so, when she discovered that she was pregnant,