Staff in Louisiana hospitals “are doing timed drills, sprinting from patient rooms and through halls to the locked medicine closets where the drugs used for abortions, incomplete miscarriages and postpartum hemorrhaging will have to be kept — as newly categorized controlled substances — starting Oct. 1.”

The number of women who died during pregnancy or soon after increased 56% in Texas from 2019 to 2022.

VP Kamala Harris will give a speech in Atlanta Friday “focused on the stories of two Georgia mothers whose deaths …show the consequences of the strict abortion bans passed by Republicans after Roe v. Wade was overturned.”

Groups that help cover the cost of abortions and the travel required to leave abortion ban states say they are limiting expenditures.

VP Kamala Harris spoke about Amber Thurman, the 28-year-old Georgia mom who died of sepsis when an ER waited too long to remove fetal tissue, on the campaign trail today.

Judge ruled that “broad guarantees of personal liberty in the constitution of this conservative, Republican-dominated state create a fundamental right to abortion before a fetus is viable.”

A second woman in Georgia has died for lack of abortion care in her state.