If they handed out awards for Sleaziest News Operation, ProPublica would give even the lowest-brow tabloid a run for its money.

Case in point: The non-profit media group pushed a shockingly dishonest narrative last week, blaming the United States Supreme Court and the Georgia state legislature for an Atlanta-area hospital’s fatal decision in 2022 not to render timely aid to a young mother who had developed a life-threatening infection following a chemical abortion. Were it not for the fall of Roe vs. Wade, its narrative alleges, Amber Nicole Thurman would still be alive.

The article provides no evidence that this is true, but that hasn't prevented the story from going national, even to the point that Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech about it in Georgia on Friday.

Thurman discovered she was pregnant with twins at six weeks. After she missed an appointment to terminate her pregnancy at an abortion facility in North Carolina, the same facility put her on a prescribed abortion pill regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol, assuring her the medications were perfectly safe.

Thurman developed sepsis soon after she started the regimen, at around nine weeks of pregnancy. Later, after her condition worsened, she went to Piedmont Henry Hospital in Georgia for a routine dilation and curettage procedure. Somehow, 20 hours passed before she was admitted into the operating room. Thurman died shortly thereafter. She is survived by her six-year-old son.

The way ProPublica tells it, the parties most responsible for Thurman’s death are Georgia, which passed a six-week fetal heartbeat law in 2022, and the Supreme Court, which overturned Roe vs. Wade in 2022 with its Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision.

This is nonsense pushed in an election year by an organization hellbent on undermining trust in the nation’s highest court.

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