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Thread: Amber Nicole Thurman (28) died after she turned septic during a medication abortion and doctors wouldn't treat her due to Republican anti-women/anti-abortion laws

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    Amber Nicole Thurman (28) died after she turned septic during a medication abortion and doctors wouldn't treat her due to Republican anti-women/anti-abortion laws

    https://www.propublica.org/article/g...-thurman-death

    In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat.

    She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C.

    But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison.

    Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail.

    It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.

    The otherwise healthy 28-year-old medical assistant, who had her sights set on nursing school, should not have died, an official state committee recently concluded.

    Tasked with examining pregnancy-related deaths to improve maternal health, the experts, including 10 doctors, deemed hers “preventable” and said the hospital’s delay in performing the critical procedure had a “large” impact on her fatal outcome.

    Their reviews of individual patient cases are not made public. But ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state.

    There are almost certainly others.

    Committees like the one in Georgia, set up in each state, often operate with a two-year lag behind the cases they examine, meaning that experts are only now beginning to delve into deaths that took place after the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion.

    Thurman’s case marks the first time an abortion-related death, officially deemed “preventable,” is coming to public light. ProPublica will share the story of the second in the coming days. We are also exploring other deaths that have not yet been reviewed but appear to be connected to abortion bans.

    Doctors warned state legislators women would die if medical procedures sometimes needed to save lives became illegal.

    Though Republican lawmakers who voted for state bans on abortion say the laws have exceptions to protect the “life of the mother,” medical experts cautioned that the language is not rooted in science and ignores the fast-moving realities of medicine.
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    This angers me so much.


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    So even if a woman miscarried at 12 weeks they wouldnt do it?

    These Republicans piss me the fuck off.

    Now that poor 6 year old doesnt even have a mom. I cant imagine leaving my son behind. And its all thier fault. So preventable.
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    Yeah, we were "OVERREACTING" when RBG died. Because we're "HYSTERICAL WOMEN".

    Crazy to know that I moved to a socialist style country that is known for being conservative and religious yet women and LGBTQ+ have more rights here than in the U.S. You know...."Land of the Free".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boston Babe 73
    Yeah, we were "OVERREACTING" when RBG died. Because we're "HYSTERICAL WOMEN".

    Crazy to know that I moved to a socialist style country that is known for being conservative and religious yet women and LGBTQ+ have more rights here than in the U.S. You know...."Land of the Free".
    We simply cannot afford to allow Trump and Project 2025 to become a reality. It's insane and scary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bewitchingstorm
    We simply cannot afford to allow Trump and Project 2025 to become a reality. It's insane and scary.
    Every US woman, no matter what their education/status/wealth/race/sexuality/age is in danger of losing their freedom and rights if Trump is elected and Project 2025 is pushed forward.

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