The family of Amber Thurman, the Georgia woman who died after taking the abortion pill, is asking Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to stop it. Politicizing his death.
Both the Democratic presidential nominee and her running mate have told Thurman’s sad story on the campaign trail — often getting aspects wrong, but her relatives say they’ve already heard much since her death in 2022. Have endured.
“I can only see (Harris) being used as Tools in Georgia against Trump,” Thurman’s stepfather Elijah Warren, 43, who works as a mental health technician, told The Post, adding that the story “is being overused.”
“She is going to pay it forward; I hope so. But this is too much. Every time I see it, it’s like having a funeral over and over again.”
Democrats have raised the case of Thurman, 28, as an example of the dangers of abortion laws enacted by some states after the federal abortion law is overturned in 2022.
Thurman went to the hospital in August that year because she had an extremely rare reaction to taking the abortion pill, which resulted in her not expelling all the fetal tissue from her body.
Her mother Shanette Williams, who did not know her daughter was pregnant, rushed to the hospital before being taken to surgery.
Cramping, bleeding and fear about how things might end, “She went from talking about the pain to ‘Mom, you have to take care of my son,'” Williams says. told Atlanta’s WSBTV station,
Piedmont Henry Hospital staff delayed 20 hours in providing care to Thurman, which could have saved her life, because they were unsure whether they would violate the state’s 2019 Surviving Infant Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act.
He didn’t have to hesitate because the Life Act allows treatment in case of medical emergencies, but sadly, Thurman died of septic shock.
Warren – who is married but separated from Shanette, with whom he has two children, aged 12 and 14 – says he sees it as “neglect of the hospital.” They should have kept an eye on my step daughter…the abortion had already taken place. There was no heartbeat.
“They should have just cleaned up the tissue; This would have saved his life.”
Somewhat ironically, Thurman was a medical assistant who had ambitions to become a nurse. When she became pregnant again with twins, she was already a single mother of a six-year-old son.
According to Atlanta News First, her best friend said that Thurman wanted an abortion so that “preserve his newfound stabilityAt that time in his life.
Thurman was nine weeks into her pregnancy when she went to North Carolina for a surgical abortion, but missed the appointment. She was given the medications mifepristone and misoprostol, took her first pill, then “insisted on going home before any symptoms started,” according to one Article by ProPublica,
He also followed medical advice and took another pill the next day, after which he started having problems and was admitted to hospital a few days later on 18 August.
Harris raised the issue of Thurman’s heartbreaking death in a September speech in Georgia and again more recently Appearance on the podcast “Call Her Daddy”.
In Georgia, Harris said of Thurman, “He was loved. And she should be alive today.
He also falsely claimed that to treat a patient “doctors have to wait until the patient is at death’s door before taking action.”
During the Vice Presidential debate on October 1 Tim Walz brought up Thurman tooHowever, he did not provide details about the circumstances that led to his death.
He called his driving wrong.600 miles from North CarolinaLooking for an abortion. He was also wrong when he said that she died while she was traveling “back and forth” from Georgia to North Carolina.
Harris and Walz have been accused by Republicans of exploiting the tragedy and pushing the idea that Donald Trump’s policies on abortion caused the tragedy.
Senator Ed Setzler commented on Amber’s death, telling WSBTV: “It young mother murdered By 9-week chemical abortion which Georgia banned in 2019 because it is dangerous for women and fatal for their babies.
“Georgia law gave these shamefully unprepared doctors every legal tool they needed to save this mother’s life.”
Since Thurman’s death, Piedmont Hospital has created policies for similar situations and educated staff on how to follow the law, but told ProPublica they are not able to provide legal advice.
Thurman’s time in the hospital was incredibly painful. ProPublica reported that doctors noticed that her organs were weakening and the infection was spreading and she became unconscious before she could be taken to the theater for an operation.
Ben Crump, a lawyer representing the family, told Newsweek that doctors left his patient crying. vomiting and turning blue For 20 hours.”
He said a medical malpractice lawsuit would also be filed.
A report by Georgia’s Maternal Death Review Committee ruled that Amber’s death could have been prevented.
According to Fox5 Atlanta, Thurman’s mother told Amber’s story to Harris during a campaign town-hall in Michigan.
A report by Georgia’s Maternal Death Review Committee ruled that Amber’s death could have been prevented.
Thurman’s mother told Harris’s story about Amber during a campaign town-hall in Michigan.
According to Fox5, he made a statement “The fight for justice for Amber is a fight for every woman’s right to make decisions about her own body and access the medical care she needs,” she said.
Warren, whose father is a pastor, says he has different views than his estranged wife.
“We are religious people. I’m against abortion,” he told The Post.
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