Amber Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for medical treatment following the use of abortion pills, marking the first publicly reported case of a woman dying due to delayed care associated with state abortion restrictions. Similarly, Candi Miller, who suffered from lupus, diabetes, and hypertension, also died after taking pills ordered online.

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Friday afternoon in Georgia about abortion rights amid the news that broke this week of two young women who died following taking abortion pills within six months of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.

The deaths of two women in Georgia have been tied to a state law that bans most abortions after roughly six weeks.

This story originally appeared on Georgia Recorder. The deaths of two Georgia women have reignited the debate over the state’s abortion restrictions that took effect two years ago and put a new focus on an exception in the law that purports to protect mothers when their own health is imperiled.

Vice President Harris plans on Friday to give her first abortion speech in Georgia, where she will address the deaths of two Georgia mothers.

The Democratic presidential nominee appeared at a live-streamed event hosted by Oprah Winfrey that was clearly targeted at persuadable women.

Vice President Kamala Harris blasted the strict abortion laws that have passed in GOP-controlled states just days after the first maternal deaths tied to Georgia’s six-week abortion ban became public.