The death of a woman in the USA after complications from a Abortion is according to a report on the restrictive abortion law in the state of Georgia28-year-old Amber Nicole Thurman was released in August 2022 due to the legal situation get medical help too latereported the US research platform Propublica. It cited information from a state committee that investigated the case. According to Propublica, this is the first death in connection with an abortion in the USA that is officially classified as “preventable”.
Thurman had after taking an abortion pill a rare complication developed. She died during an emergency operation. According to the committee’s assessment, the doctors performed a presumably life-saving procedure too late, the Propublica report said. A law had recently been passed in Georgia that made curettage of the uterus a criminal offense and provided only a few exceptions. Doctors warned that the guidelines were vague and difficult to interpret.
“Amber would still be alive if (former President) Donald Trump and (Georgia Governor) Brian Kemp had not enforced the abortion ban,” said activist Mini Timmaraju of the NGO Reproductive Freedom for All. “They have blood on their hands.”
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Restrictive abortion laws came into force in Georgia and 21 other U.S. states after the Supreme Court in June 2022 struck down the nearly 50-year-old nationwide right to abortion and placed jurisdiction over abortion law in the hands of the states.
Thurman had traveled to North Carolina to have an abortion because of Georgia’s ban on abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. However, in the days after taking the abortion pill, complications arose and she had to be hospitalized in Georgia.
The doctors diagnosed acute sepsis. But despite the rapid deterioration of her health, they waited 17 hours before performing a curettage of her uterus. Thurman died during the operation. “She died in the hospital, surrounded by medical personnel who could have saved her life,” wrote feminist author Jessica Valenti on the online service X. “This is the result of the abortion bans.” (AFP)
