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The Georgia abortion laws played no role in her death:
Posted on: September 25, 2024 at 13:30:15 CT
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ProPublica cited a review committee that ruled that her death was preventable and that she might have survived if she had been provided with a D&C earlier.
But the provision of the D&C would not have been illegal under the state’s law. In Thurman’s case, ultrasound confirmed that both of her twins were already deceased by the time she had reached the hospital, according to medical reports. That means that any heartbeat provision in the state law preventing a D&C of viable fetuses would not have applied.
ProPublica did not cite any experts blaming the law for the death of Thurman. Anti-abortion doctors and legal experts have said that the law did not prevent her from receiving treatment.
Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told reporters before Harris’s speech that the signs Thurman presented with “would indicate a very severe bacterial infection.”
“In the setting of an induced abortion, the physician seeing her must suspect incomplete abortion,” Francis said. “In fact, any first year OB resident would be able to make that diagnosis, given those symptoms.”
The care necessary to treat Thurman’s severe infection would have been, according to Francis and her colleague, Dr. Ingrid Skopp, also an OB/GYN and and anti-abortion advocate, to quickly administer antibiotics and perform a D&C.
Katie Daniel, state policy director for SBA Pro-Life America, told reporters ahead of Harris’s speech that the argument that Georgia’s abortion ban caused these preventable deaths is “flatly false.”
“Georgia bans procedures that cause the death of an unborn child whose heart is beating without a lawful justification,” Daniel said. “It did not ban any particular procedure. A D&C can always be performed if it is medically indicated to treat miscarriages or to treat abortion complications.”
ProPublica cited a review committee that ruled that her death was preventable and that she might have survived if she had been provided with a D&C earlier.
But the provision of the D&C would not have been illegal under the state’s law. In Thurman’s case, ultrasound confirmed that both of her twins were already deceased by the time she had reached the hospital, according to medical reports. That means that any heartbeat provision in the state law preventing a D&C of viable fetuses would not have applied.
ProPublica did not cite any experts blaming the law for the death of Thurman. Anti-abortion doctors and legal experts have said that the law did not prevent her from receiving treatment.
Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told reporters before Harris’s speech that the signs Thurman presented with “would indicate a very severe bacterial infection.”
“In the setting of an induced abortion, the physician seeing her must suspect incomplete abortion,” Francis said. “In fact, any first year OB resident would be able to make that diagnosis, given those symptoms.”
The care necessary to treat Thurman’s severe infection would have been, according to Francis and her colleague, Dr. Ingrid Skopp, also an OB/GYN and and anti-abortion advocate, to quickly administer antibiotics and perform a D&C.
Katie Daniel, state policy director for SBA Pro-Life America, told reporters ahead of Harris’s speech that the argument that Georgia’s abortion ban caused these preventable deaths is “flatly false.”
“Georgia bans procedures that cause the death of an unborn child whose heart is beating without a lawful justification,” Daniel said. “It did not ban any particular procedure. A D&C can always be performed if it is medically indicated to treat miscarriages or to treat abortion complications.”
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The Georgia abortion laws played no role in her death: - JeffB MU - 9/25 13:30:15