This week brought confirmation of what so many feared would happen if Roe v. Wade was overturned: Women have died because of abortion bans.

The 2022 deaths of Georgia mothers Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, reported in wrenching detail by ProPublica, illustrate the climate of fear created by extreme abortion laws. Thurman died at a hospital of sepsis after doctors apparently delayed treatment until she would have qualified for the state's medical exception. Miller, too afraid to seek a doctor's help after a rare complication from a medication abortion, suffered at home until her death. Miller left behind three children; Thurman, a six-year-old son.