Amber Nicole Thurman died of septic shock with “retained products of conception” in late summer 2022. Just a few weeks before, the overturn of Roe v. Wade triggered Georgia’s state law banning abortions from the sixth week of pregnancy. Thurman’s death, when recently examined by the State of Georgia’s maternal mortality review board, was deemed “preventable.” Georgia doctors did not immediately remove the dead infant remains from her uterus when Thurman arrived at the hospital in critical condition, having taken pills to chemically abort her twin babies at nine weeks’ gestation.
Candi Miller, also from Georgia, ordered her abortion pills online. The Dutch supplier Aid Access, which imports its pills from India, sends DIY abortion kits all over the world, including to approximately 7,000 U.S. customers each month. Miller did not know how far along she was in her fourth pregnancy when she took the pills, only that she was afraid of the state’s new law banning abortions and equally afraid of being pregnant again due to chronic diabetes and lupus. When she died at home a few days later, her autopsy revealed high doses of diphenhydramine (the active ingredient in Benadryl), acetaminophen (found in painkillers such as Tylenol), as well as fentanyl in Miller’s body. The founder of Aid Access, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, told ProPublica “it was clear the abortion pill did not cause [Miller’s] death,” even though Miller was not in critical condition until immediately after taking the pills.
Somehow, these two stories are supposed to mean legalizing more abortion would prevent more deaths. Bans cause doctors to deny women life-saving procedures—never mind that no life-saving would be needed had these mothers not taken abortion pills in the first place—and therefore, bans kill. ProPublica notes at the end of its report that “no doctor has been prosecuted for violating abortion bans,” but who knows when one might?
The publication of Thurman and Miller’s stories this week has already brought a flurry of Democratic statements on the danger of abortion bans for the health of women. The spin, however, cannot remain unburdened by what has been: Miller didn’t die because she was pregnant. She died in the process of attempting to take her unborn child’s life, with $80 mail-order abortion pills and fentanyl besides. Thurman didn’t develop sepsis because she was pregnant. She developed it because she tried to end her pregnancy using an FDA-approved drug under FDA-approved circumstances. The buck does not stop with the doctors who failed to save her life after that fact. […]
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