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 Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable. Why are Georgia Republicans limiting women’s freedoms over their own bodies? 🇺🇸

In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage. But Georgia had recently made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison.

https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death 
 Killing an innocent child who happens to be in the womb through no fault of its own is evil.

Killing children in womb is the single largest human rights violation in the history of the world.