A ProPublica investigation found that 28-year-old mother Amber Thurman died as a result of Georgia's abortion laws. Here's what to know.

According to ProPublica’s in-depth coverage, in 2022 Thurman arrived at a Georgia emergency department seeking medical care shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion.

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,