Is It Better to Let Women Die from Abortion Pills Than to Tell Them the Truth?

I wrote Monday about the effort to blame Georgia’s “heartbeat bill” abortion ban for the case of Amber Nicole Thurman, a healthy 28-year-old woman who sought an abortion for no reason of medical need, took the abortion pill, suffered life-threatening complications, and died when a hospital delayed in performing a routine procedure that is completely legal under Georgia’s abortion law. Senator Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) even held a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday morning to promote the misleading claim that Thurman was killed by Georgia law, rather than by the abortion pill and the malpractice of the hospital that failed timely to treat her.

Pro-abortion ProPublica journalist Kavitha Surana has also highlighted a second case: that of Candi Miller. Miller’s case illustrates even more clearly the costs of the Biden-Harris policy of permitting an unregulated, unsupervised abortion pill to be sold through the mail — as well as the costs of Democratic rhetoric that misleads women into believing that they cannot receive medical treatment after its use.

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I wrote Monday about the effort to blame Georgia’s “heartbeat bill” abortion ban for the case of Amber Nicole Thurman, a healthy 28-year-old woman who sought an abortion for no reason of medical need, took the abortion pill, suffered life-threatening complications, and died when a hospital delayed in performing a routine procedure that is completely legal under Georgia’s abortion law. Senator Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) even held a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday morning to promote the misleading claim that Thurman was killed by Georgia law, rather than by the abortion pill and the malpractice of the hospital that failed timely to treat her.

Pro-abortion ProPublica journalist Kavitha Surana has also highlighted a second case: that of Candi Miller. Miller’s case illustrates even more clearly the costs of the Biden-Harris policy of permitting an unregulated, unsupervised abortion pill to be sold through the mail — as well as the costs of Democratic rhetoric that misleads women into believing that they cannot receive medical treatment after its use.