The Patriot Post® · Harris and Her Lemmings Lie About Abortion Bans

By Emmy Griffin ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/110391-harris-and-her-lemmings-lie-about-abortion-bans-2024-09-20

Abortion is the only policy on which Kamala Harris feels like she has solid ground to stand. She is religiously zealous in her advocacy of it. And because Harris is not really making any headway in the polls, her campaign and media propagandists have propagated for political expediency the idea that abortion bans kill women. (Ironic, I know.)

The publication ProPublica, a well-known Democrat spin machine, posted a story on Monday detailing the tragedy of Amber Thurman, a single mother to a young son in Georgia who became pregnant with twins. Thurman was just starting to get on her feet and was planning to start nursing school in the fall. New babies would definitely complicate that.

Thurman traveled to North Carolina to get an abortion because Georgia prohibits it after six weeks gestation. (North Carolina also has a ban, but it’s slightly longer at 12 weeks, six days.) She was nine weeks along at the time.

When she arrived, medical personnel didn’t give her a surgical abortion because she didn’t make it on time to her appointment. Instead, they offered her the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. She took the first pill and went home to finish the abortion alone. It was after she took the second pill that things started to go dreadfully wrong.

Within a week, Thurman was having severe symptoms. When she went to the emergency room, she was diagnosed with sepsis because she hadn’t been able to expel all of her preborn babies’ remains. She was given antibiotics and then sent home. The next day, she was diagnosed with acute sepsis, but the hospital still didn’t give her a D&C (dilation and curettage). She waited for hours before the hospital got around to helping her. She died on the operating table.

A day after the ProPublica article was published, Kamala Harris posted this: “A young mother from Georgia should be alive today, raising her son and pursuing her dream of attending nursing school. This is exactly what we feared when Roe v. Wade was struck down. In more than 20 states, Trump Abortion Bans prevent doctors from providing basic medical care.”

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi followed suit a day after that: “Amber Nicole Thurman died because a Trump Abortion Ban denied her access to reproductive health care. Make no mistake: this preventable death is the direct consequence of actions taken by the Trump-appointed Supreme Court and Republican lawmakers to tear down Roe v. Wade.”

It’s a disgusting lie.

ProPublica, Harris, and Pelosi would have everyone believe that Thurman’s death was the result of a cruel abortion ban in Georgia. Thurman was not given a D&C in time, though ProPublica blames Georgia’s ban for that delay.

But what really caused her death? The abortion pill — and a hospital that probably committed medical malpractice.

“This woman died from her abortion,” conservative podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey noted. “She tragically tried to abort her twins via a medication abortion. As is too often the case, parts of the baby were left inside her, which caused her to suffer from fatal sepsis. Yes, she should have received a D&C and antibiotics. But that is not the fault of any Georgia law, which fully permits a D&C when the baby has already passed. She died because of the abortion pills and because of the negligence of doctors. She did not die because of any pro-life law.”

The Babylon Bee’s Joel Barry accurately added: “This young mother from Georgia was killed by an abortionist. She ran into traffic on the way to the abortion clinic, and they refused to hold her spot for a surgical abortion. Instead, they sent her home with mifepristone and misoprostol abortion pills, which made her go septic and die. No law prevented her from receiving timely follow-up care. Abortionist monsters are killing women and blaming it on Trump.”

A D&C to remove deceased fetal remains is not illegal in Georgia at any stage. Thurman was not a victim of an abortion ban. She was a victim of abortion pills, neglectful and greedy abortion mills, and a hospital that did not give her timely care.

ProPublica would also have readers believe that the reason doctors didn’t care for Thurman in a more timely manner was because of fear that giving her lifesaving surgery would get them in trouble with the law. Georgia’s abortion ban has exceptions when saving the life of the mother, so that particular accusation doesn’t hold up. The more pertinent point is brought up by The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd: “Instead, all evidence suggests Thurman’s death was due to medical negligence egged on by leftist fearmongering about lifesaving laws that provably protect women and babies from harm.”

Harris and her lemmings are lying to support the narrative that Georgia’s abortion ban killed this young mother. They are standing on her grave and saying with a straight face that if Georgia hadn’t had an abortion ban, she could have gotten a surgical abortion and would still be alive today.

Here is the dark truth that this story obfuscates: Abortion pills aren’t safe and shouldn’t be given to women. In fact, back in February, this author highlighted an exposé of a medical journal that retracted (read: suppressed) three studies demonstrating the danger of these pills. The only reason to hide this evidence is political bias and disregard for the lives of women and children.

As Patriot Post ambassador Isabel Brown notes, “It’s estimated that 5-10% of women who take the abortion pill as instructed, as Amber did, retain tissue of their child inside their body requiring immediate surgical intervention — so she isn’t alone in this tragedy.”

It also goes to show that even with a policy that Harris feels justified to support, she has to have her cronies lie about it. Why? Because killing children is indefensible. And because they’re trying to gin up votes in a crucial swing state.

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