ProPublica article claims that Georgia’s abortion law led to the tragic death of 28yo Amber Thurman.  Her preventable death was related to abortion – but not as the title implies. Read this 🧵 on how physicians could have intervened to save her life… Days before her death: Amber is given and takes the abortion drug mifepristone at 9 weeks gestation with twins at a clinic in NC. She drives home to GA, & takes the 2nd drug, misoprostol, at home a day later. These drugs were the root cause of the following events.

Our hearts go out to Amanda and Josh Zurawski, who will be featured in tonight's State of the Union Address. There are no laws in any state that prevent timely and compassionate care for a miscarriage -- which is the exact care Ms. Zurawski was in need of. Denying proper healthcare to patients facing miscarriage complications is not complying with the law. Miscarriage care is not abortion.

(1/5) Abortion industry advocates continually disregard the true impact of abortion on maternal mortality, as evidenced by Thursday's House Oversight hearing. Time and again, we have pointed to the need for better data collection to help protect our patients. (2/5) Our @AAPLOG #CommitteeOpinion on #maternalmortality extensively outlines why maternal mortality data is so incomplete and how we could improve it: aaplog.org/wp-content/upl…