Abortion Bans Are Literally Killing Us
glamour.comabortion after six weeks of pregnancy. It feels like an almost absurdly cruel irony that , which went into effect following the overturning of Roe v.
Wade, is called the Living Infants and Fairness Equality, or “LIFE” Act. is one of two published by ProPublica this week examining the impact of Georgia’s ban on maternal health, and what reporter Kavitha Surana discovered was devastating.
She found that the deaths of Thurman and another Georgia woman, , can be directly linked to their inability to access care under the new law.“There are almost certainly others,” she notes, not just in Georgia but elsewhere where abortion has been restricted.Both women died in 2022, just weeks or months after the bill passed.
Thurman had discovered she was pregnant with twins in July, and decided to terminate the pregnancy. However, she had barely missed the opportunity to get an abortion under the new law, as her pregnancy had just passed the 6-week mark.After a few weeks of waiting to see if the law would be overturned, Thurman and a friend traveled to North Carolina to get a legal abortion when she was 9 weeks pregnant.
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