An Abortion Ban Killed Amber Thurman—and Likely Many More

Amber Nicole Thurman , 28 , died from complications from an abortion ban in Georgia .

She was a medical assistant and mother to a 6-year-old son who loved to take him to zoos and the beach.

She died because doctors in Georgia did not perform a routine procedure to remove tissue retained after a medication abortion.

The state’s maternal mortality review committee said Thurman ’ death was “preventable”.

In 1977 , Rosie Jimenez died as a direct result of the Hyde Amendment , the ban on federal funding of abortion passed in 1976 .

We only know these facts because of the reporting of the late feminist journalist Ellen Frankfort and abortion rights activist Frances Kissling .

We’ll never know how many more Rosies are out there whose names we never learned.

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