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Opinion: An abortion ban killed her. Trump used Fox town hall to mock her grieving family.

www.statesman.com Opinion: An abortion ban killed her. Trump used Fox town hall to mock her grieving family.

At a Fox News town hall focused on women's issues, Donald Trump treated Amber Thurman's death and her family's grief like a laugh line.

Opinion: An abortion ban killed her. Trump used Fox town hall to mock her grieving family.

According to a ProPublica report: “She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear (fetal tissue) from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C. But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison. Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed ... as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail. It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.”

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