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The Christian right victim-blames women who die from abortion bans

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Amber Nicole Thurman , 28 , died on August 19, 2022 , less than a month after Georgia passed its draconian abortion law that banned the treatment that could have saved her life.

A committee set up to examine maternal mortality cases has deemed Thurman 's death "preventable," and ruled she would have likely lived if doctors had used the protocols that had been in place before the Georgia law made them a felony.

Anti-choice activists don't want to take responsibility for the loss of this healthy young mother of a 6-year-old boy.

Candi Miller , a 41-year-old mother of three , had been told by doctors that "having another baby could kill her" She took abortion pills ordered online, but, like Thurman , had an incomplete abortion.

Julian Zelizer : Conservatives will pass laws that kill women, defame them in death by painting them as reckless and stupid.