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Kavitha Surana, ProPublica

Kavitha Surana, ProPublica

Kavitha Surana is a reporter at ProPublica.

As abortion bans delay emergency medical care, this Georgia mother’s death was preventable

By: - September 17, 2024

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 […]