CNN Invites ProPublica on to Blame Ga. Pro-Life Law for Two Women Killed from Botched Abortions
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BOLDUAN: “I see in the article that a spokesperson for the Republican governor, Brian Kemp, called the reporting, labeled as a fear-mongering campaign. Talk to me about that.”
BRANSTETTER: “Well, I just think it's ironic. They also used that word fear-mongering two weeks before Amber Thurman died when advocates and doctors went to court to stop the state's abortion ban and said women would suffer, women would die. They said that's fear-mongering. Two weeks later, Amber Thurman died. I also think it's ironic that this is a state board that ruled both deaths preventable --”
BOLDUAN: “Right”
BRANSTETTER: “-- that answers to ultimately the governor.”
BOLDUAN: “That's exactly right. And that's where some of the coming from as you dug into it. And I want to read one paragraph from your reporting on Amber Thurman. It's like an additional pain that is brought upon this family, even beyond her death, which is this. For years, all Thurman's family had was a death certificate that said she died of septic shock and retained products of conception, a rare description that had previously only appeared once in Georgia death records over the last 15 years, 'ProPublica' found. The family learned Thurman's case had been reviewed and deemed preventable from 'ProPublica's' reporting.




