Thurman, 28, experienced a rare complication after taking abortion pills and died during emergency surgery in August 2022, ProPublica reported.

It’s Amber Nicole Thurman. She was 28 and worked as a medical assistant and had a 6-year-old son whom she loved to take to petting zoos and the beach. As was horribly predictable, in a country where Black women seek abortions at higher rates and die far more commonly from maternal-health complications,

People hold signs during a protest against recently passed abortion ban bills at the Georgia State Capitol building, on May 21, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. The