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Vice President Kamala Harris accused former President Donald Trump and the pro-life movement of killing two women during a campaign speech in Atlanta on Friday. In a claim that has circulated throughout the media, the vice president claimed “Trump abortion bans” took the lives of at least two women in Georgia, including the life of 28-year-olf Amber Thurman. But pro-life experts say the claim turns reality on its head.
“We know that at least two women — and those are only the stories we know — here in the state of Georgia died — died because of a Trump abortion ban,” Harris claimed baselessly before a boisterous crowd. She went on to give a bowdlerized form of the life of one of those women, 28-year-old Amber Thurman:
“When she discovered that she was pregnant, she decided she wanted to have an abortion, but because of the Trump abortion ban here in Georgia, she was forced to travel out of state to receive the health care that she needed. But when she returned to Georgia, she needed additional care, so she went to a hospital. But, you see, under the Trump abortion ban, her doctors could have faced up to a decade in prison for providing Amber the care she needed. Understand what a law like this means ..."
