US Vice President Kamala Harris
US Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to speak about abortion on Friday in Georgia, where two women's deaths have been tied to a state law that mostly bans the procedure after roughly six weeks.
Amber Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat complications that occurred after she took abortion pills.
The case is the first publicly reported instance of a woman dying from delayed care tied to a state abortion law.
A news organisation also reported on the death of Candi Miller, a woman with lupus, diabetes and hypertension who took abortion pills she ordered online.
An autopsy found fetal tissue that hadn't been expelled and a lethal combination of painkillers.
The state's maternal mortality review committee did not believe abortion medication caused her death.
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