ProPublica: Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia's Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died

[Dennis Donovan]

Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died

Candi Miller’s family said she didn't visit a doctor “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.” Maternal health experts deemed her death preventable and blamed Georgia’s abortion ban.

by Kavitha Surana

Sept. 18, 6 a.m. EDT


Candi Miller with her husband, Alex Cardenas; son Christian; and daughter Turiya, whom she named after her sister. Credit:Courtesy of Turiya Tomlin-Randall

Candi Miller’s health was so fragile, doctors warned having another baby could kill her.

“They said it was going to be more painful and her body may not be able to withstand it,” her sister, Turiya Tomlin-Randall, told ProPublica.

But when the mother of three realized she had unintentionally gotten pregnant in the fall of 2022, Georgia’s new abortion ban gave her no choice. Although it made exceptions for acute, life-threatening emergencies, it didn’t account for chronic conditions, even those known to present lethal risks later in pregnancy.

At 41, Miller had lupus, diabetes and hypertension and didn’t want to wait until the situation became dire. So she avoided doctors and navigated an abortion on her own — a path many health experts feared would increase risks when women in America lost the constitutional right to obtain legal, medically supervised abortions.

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[UpInArms]

1. What the GQP has done to women is criminal

They should be facing murder charges for every death.

[Fla Dem]

2. Her children lost a beautiful caring Mom thanks to Trump and the GOP.

Very sad.

[Stargazer99]

3. Open season on women via Republicans

[mercuryblues]

4. The pen is mightier than the sword

Sign one piece of legislation and women start dying. The gNOp are nothing more than serial killers.

[lostnfound]

5. Lupus, diabetes and hypertension. JFC a frightening package to add pregnancy. Nt

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R