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Amber Nicole Thurman was a young, twenty-eight-year-old Black American woman, mother to a child, when she died in Piedmont Henry Hospital in Stockbridge, Georgia, in 2022. Thurman’s death was preventable, as she only needed a fifteen-minute dilation and curettage procedure to cure her infection. The doctors refused to perform it because of Georgia’s abortion ban that forbade gynecological procedures associated with pregnancy and maternity.

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Amber Nicole Thurman is not the exception. This is one of the many maternal deaths caused by the unsustainability of the American reproductive healthcare and legal system. In this context, maternal death

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