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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate President Pro tempore Patty Murray, D-Wash., and others revealed on Tuesday their plans to force votes on abortion-related bills in the wake of two pregnant women’s deaths after taking abortion pills.
In floor remarks, Schumer said, “What happened in Georgia is a direct example of how abortion bans continue to exacerbate the racial disparities in maternal death. Amber’s doctors didn’t perform the medical procedures they knew she needed because of Georgia’s law.”
“It was the law overruling their good medical judgment. She went into septic shock and her heart stopped – all while doctors did everything except the medically-sound treatment she needed,” he said, in reference to ProPublica’s reporting on the deaths of Candi Miller and Amber Nicole Thurman.
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Both of the women died in Georgia after taking abortion pills and suffering complications. In Thurman’s case, according to ProPublica, doctors waited a prolonged period of time before performing the necessary dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure, which is not an abortion. Miller was found unresponsive by her family after suffering from the pill’s complication.
“Today, as you heard from the leader, we’re going to try and pass this resolution, and we’re going to see if the Senate can come together with one voice and tell women, ‘women, we want to put your health first,'” Murray said at a press conference.
The Washington Democrat will attempt on Tuesday afternoon to advance her resolution to affirm “the basic right to emergency health care, including abortion care” for a vote by unanimous consent. However, this is expected to be objected to by a Republican.
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