Vice President Kamala Harris repeated the left’s allegation Sunday that a woman in Georgia died as a result of delayed care owing to the state’s abortion restrictions, despite doctors previously dismissing the claim as untrue.
During an interview on the raunchy and often sexually explicit “Call Her Daddy” podcast, host Alex Cooper questioned Harris about the impact of Roe v. Wade’s overturning, blaming Amber Nicole Thurman’s death on the Supreme Court ruling and the state’s abortion limits after she had a chemically induced abortion in 2022.
Harris said to her audience, “So, Amber was a young mother of a six-year-old son. She was a medical assistant who was so excited because she was just getting on her feet to be independent. She got her own apartment in a gated community with a pool that her son could play in. She got accepted to nursing school.”
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“She was, as described by her family, so excited and so ambitious, and she had plans. Then she found out she was pregnant, and she didn’t want to go through with her pregnancy. And she was living in Georgia, and she couldn’t receive care there because she was past six weeks. And so she ended up going to another state, and…she couldn’t get there on time.
“And because the other state had been so overwhelmed by all these women coming from all these southern states who couldn’t get treatment in their own state, her window for her appointment had closed and instead of having a surgical procedure, she had medication and basically went back home and then had some complications and went to the hospital because she was bleeding.”
“And they delayed 20 hours before they treated her,” Harris continued, suggesting that Georgia’s laws prevented her from receiving lifesaving care.
Her statement comes after ProPublica released an article last month that blamed the deaths of two Georgia women, Thurman and Candi Miller, on the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the state’s new abortion restrictions.
Harris and other Democratic Party members, including her running mate Tim Walz, have used their deaths as evidence of the need to extend abortion access following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Harris told Cooper, “Here’s the thing that’s so messed up about this. Some of these people will say whoa, but I do believe in exceptions, I believe that there should be an exception in terms of the life of the mother.
You know what that means in practical terms? She’s almost dead before you decide to give her care. What, so we’re going to have public health policy that says a doctor, a medical professional, waits until you’re at death’s door before they gives you care. That’s outrageous…where is the humanity?”
According to Georgia’s heartbeat statute, “no abortion shall be performed if the unborn child has a detectable human heartbeat except in the event of a medical emergency or medically futile pregnancy.”
OB-GYNs have denounced the Amber Thurman storyline as a deceptive lie promoted by the media and Democrats.
Dr. Ingrid Skop, Vice President and Director of Medical Affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, criticized the media for spreading “fearmongering” and “lies” that are harming women who are unaware of new abortion legislation.
“I was not surprised to see this pro-abortion media try to point the blame at Georgia’s pro-life laws, but, in fact, Georgia’s laws allow doctors to intervene to save the life of the woman,” Skop recently told Fox News Digital.
“I think the focus of the Democratic Party upon abortion as an issue is only because the American people do not understand the laws. Many times, women are hurt by abortions. It is not necessary for women to live their best life. And, of course, it’s the fearmongering and lies that have led us to this place where we are today, where people even think there would be a reason to point at the law.”
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., and state Rep. Mark Newton have both stated that they do not believe Georgia laws had anything to do with Thurman’s death, claiming complications from abortion pills caused it because doctors may have delayed too long to intervene.
“We never deny a woman an abortion because it’s going to harm her in some way. She will always be protected,” McCormick said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.
“You have every right to an abortion, even with that heartbeat law,” he continued. “So, let’s make that very clear right now. When they say there’s no exceptions, there’s never any law in any state where there’s no exceptions.
“That doesn’t exist. That’s simply not the way it works. The mother’s life is always protected. With that said, it doesn’t mean it’s easy to get an abortion just because you have a complication or because something goes wrong.”
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