Get the facts you need on the tragic deaths of two Georgia women after they received dangerous abortion drugs.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe in June, 2022, Kamala Harris said: “Millions of women in America will go to bed tonight without access to the healthcare…that they had this morning.” This kind of rhetoric has deadly consequences.
Amber Thurman and Candi Miller died because abortion is inherently dangerous. Because Democrats claim, the media repeats, and women mistakenly believe that they cannot get care in a medical emergency. Or that they or their doctors will be punished. Even though there is no state law that prevents care in a medical emergency and no doctor in the last six decades has ever been prosecuted for performing an abortion to save a mother’s life.
Kamala lied, women died. These preventable deaths should be a wake-up call for all Americans about the inherent dangers of abortion and how Biden-Harris policies that allow abortion drugs to be sent thought the mail hurt women and their children.
Democrats’ abortion lies put women at risk. Georgia law does not block life-saving care for women, or treating complications after abortion. But because of reckless misinformation, Candi Miller was afraid to seek care she needed, deserved, and could have gotten. And doctors didn’t save Amber Thurman with an operation that was 100 percent legal. Candi and Amber should be alive today. The left’s scare tactics are deadly.
FACT: Georgia law is clear. Georgia prohibits elective abortion for unborn children who have a heartbeat. But it allows abortion if a physician determines, in reasonable medical judgment, that a medical emergency exists…” This exception allows doctors to intervene to protect the life or physical health of the mother. The definition of abortion clearly states that the act is taken to “cause the death of an unborn child.” So treating abortion complications after the child is deceased or managing a natural miscarriage would NOT be considered abortion.
Some in the media are claiming that Georgia law “banned D&Cs.” This claim is flatly false. Georgia “banned” procedures that cause the death of an unborn child whose heart is beating without a lawful justification. It did not ban any procedure. A D&C can always be performed if it is medically indicated for miscarriage management or to treat abortion complications.
FACT: All state abortion laws in effect have exemptions to save the life of the mother. Due to modern medicine, these situations are thankfully rare, but when they do occur, there is no legal or medical question that the life of the mother can be protected.
An entire subspeciality of obstetrics, known as maternal-fetal medicine, exists to help high-risk pregnant women and their unborn child make it safely through pregnancy and delivery, or provide necessary medical care when a mother’s life is at risk.
Women should not be fearful that they will be punished or turned away for seeking medical help because no state law calls for it. In the few cases where a woman was turned away, the blame should be squarely on the person or institution that did it—possibly in violation of state or federal law—not on the laws enacted to prevent the elective killing of unborn children.
FACT: Medical care for ectopic pregnancies is not an abortion and is not prohibited by any pro-life law. Plus, every law in effect has exemptions to save the life of the mother, which would cover cases of ectopic pregnancies. Even Planned Parenthood admits that “treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same as getting an abortion.”
Although the overwhelming majority of OB/GYNs do not perform abortion, all obstetricians can and do perform surgical removal of an ectopic pregnancy or treat with methotrexate to protect the mother from the risks of ectopic pregnancies.
FACT: The pro-life laws going into effect explicitly and specifically exclude treatment for a miscarriage, which is not the same as an induced abortion.
Although treatment can be similar to abortion, such as dilation and suction procedures, there is a clear difference between actively ending fetal life, as in abortion, and providing medical care for a woman after that fetal life has already ended, as in the heartbreak of a miscarriage.
FACT: Black women have a maternal mortality rate 3.4 times that of white women. Black women also have abortion rates nearly 4 times higher than white women. Clearly, higher rates of abortion are not protecting Black women from maternal mortality and may even be increasing the risk. There are many reasons this may be happening which demand further study. Advocating to end the lives of even more Black children is not the answer to this or any other problem.
FACT: Complications are four times as frequent following abortion drugs compared with surgical abortion. When taken in the second trimester 39%, nearly four in ten women will need surgery.
About one in twenty women will be seen in an ER within a month, closely mirroring the FDA’s own data documenting one in twenty-five women will seek care. Women will often not tell a doctor about the preceding abortion, with approximately 60% miscoded as being due to a complication from miscarriage, not abortion drugs.
The Guttmacher Institute states that 630,000 abortions were performed with these drugs last year, so this number is not inconsequential, even if the visits were minor. But our records-linkage data demonstrates that over 70% of the ER visits received a “severe” or “critical” acuity code, double that of women who presented with complications after childbirth.
The FDA’s lax supervision of these drugs is worsening the problem. Over time, they have increased the gestational age cutoff, removed the requirements for complication reporting, determined it is unnecessary for a physician with surgical skills to prescribe the drugs, and removed all pre- and post-abortion in-person visit requirements, allowing these drugs to be ordered on-line and delivered in the mail by an invisible and inaccessible prescriber, as Candi Miller experienced.
Help hold Kamala Harris and her radical allies accountable for the role that their deadly misinformation campaign has played in harming mothers.
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