In August, Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who suffered a rare complication from abortion pills, died from an infection after Georgia passed a law banning the abortion treatment that would have saved her life. Earlier this summer, Texas woman Kate Cox, whose fetus’ lethal anomaly doctors said threatened her health and future fertility, left the state to obtain an abortion after the state Supreme Court denied her request for a restraining order on its near-total abortion ban. Lawyers said her condition was deteriorating as she awaited a determination on whether she could obtain abortion care.
The overturn of Roe v. Wade made these women’s harrowing realities possible and Trump and Vance’s proposed state-varied abortion policy could beget more of them, Hansen suggested.
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