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.

The FDA approved mifepristone in 2000 as a safe and effective way to end early pregnancies. The drug, which blocks the hormone progesterone, also primes the uterus to respond to the contraction-causing effect of another drug typically used along with it, misoprostol. The pills are used in more than six in 10 abortions nationally.

Beale Harper — who describes herself as a “lover of Jesus” and “great mom” — lives in Georgia, where such a procedure is illegal under the state’s six-week abortion ban. And she knows there are others in the state like her — people who,

An investigation by ProPublica details the first (known) deaths of women who needed abortions to save their lives but couldn't get them in Georgia, a state with a near-total abortion ban. Doctors say their deaths were preventable.

A new investigative ProPublica report found that a Georgia woman died after not receiving treatment for complications from an abortion.