Vice President Harris on Tuesday blamed former President Trump for Georgia’s restrictive abortion legislation after a brand new report that discovered an abortion-related demise within the state was “preventable.”
ProPublica published a report on Monday that exposed a 28-year-old Georgia mom died after not receiving take care of an an infection because of the state’s legislation. The report mentioned the girl mustn’t have died, citing an official state committee, including that the consultants analyzing pregnancy-related deaths “deemed hers ‘preventable’ and mentioned the hospital’s delay in performing the vital process had a ‘massive,’ affect on her deadly consequence.”
“This younger mom must be alive, elevating her son, and pursuing her dream of attending nursing faculty,” Harris mentioned in a press release.
“That is precisely what we feared when Roe was struck down. In additional than 20 states, Trump Abortion Bans are stopping docs from offering primary medical care. Ladies are bleeding out in parking heaps, turned away from emergency rooms, shedding their capacity to ever have kids once more,” she added. “Survivors of rape and incest are being advised they can not make choices about what occurs subsequent to their our bodies. And now ladies are dying. These are the results of Donald Trump’s actions.”
Harris additionally argued that restoring freedoms are at stake within the 2024 election, warning that Trump would signal a nationwide abortion ban. Trump refused to commit to vetoing a nationwide abortion ban throughout final week’s presidential debate.
“We should go a legislation to revive reproductive freedom. When I’m President of america, I’ll proudly signal it into legislation. Lives depend upon it,” Harris mentioned.
Georgia has a six-week abortion ban, which the Georgia Supreme Courtroom in October 2023 dominated is constitutional and would stay in place. The ruling declared entry to abortion within the state will proceed to be restricted, and most abortions will stay unlawful as soon as a doctor can detect fetal cardiac exercise, which is normally round six weeks gestation.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday shared the ProPublica report on X, highlighting, “her demise was preventable.”