Amber Thurmans stepfather wants Kamala Harris to stop overusing her death for politics

The family of Georgia woman Amber Thurman, who died after taking an abortion pill, are calling on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to stop politicizing her death.Both the Democratic nominee for President and her running mate have recounted Thurman’s tragic story – often getting aspects wrong – along the campaign trail, but her relatives say they have already suffered enough since her 2022 death.“I can see [Harris] using that as the only tool in Georgia against Trump,” Thurman’s stepfather Elijah Warren, 43, who works as a mental health technician, told The Post, adding the story is “being overused.”“She is going to push that; I expect it.But it’s too much.

It’s kind of like a funeral happening over and over again every time I see that.”Democrats have raised 28-year-old Thurman’s case as an example of the dangers of abortion laws applied by some states after the overturning of the federal abortion law in 2022.Thurman went to hospital in August that year because she had an extremely rare reaction from taking an abortion pill, which resulted in her not expelling all the fetal tissue from her body.Her mother, Shanette Williams, who did not know that her daughter was pregnant, arrived at the hospital prior to her being taken in for surgery.Cramping, bleeding and fearful of how things could end up, “She went from talking about the pain to ‘Mom, you’re going to have to take care of my son,’” Williams told Altanta’s WSBTV station.Staff at Piedmont Henry Hospital delayed giving Thurman care for 20 hours, which could have saved her life, as they were unsure if they would be breaking the state’s 2019 Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act.They needn’t have hesitated because the LIFE Act allows for treatment in the case of medical emergencies, but sadly Thurman instead died of septic shock.Warren — who is married but separated from Shanette, with whom he has two kids who are 12 and 14 — says he sees it “more as a neglect of t...