The family of the first known person to have died due to a post- Roe abortion ban spoke publicly for the first time on Thursday night , alongside Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris and famed television host Oprah Winfrey during a town hall event. They shared the story about their daughter, Amber Nicole Thurman, whose 2022 death was entirely preventable . Georgia's extreme ban on abortion allows exceptions to save a pregnant person's life, but such exceptions are rarely carried out due to the vagueness of the law failing to stipulate what constitutes a life-saving event (this is a regularly occurring problem throughout the U.S. where such bans are in place). Thurman waited 20 hours before receiving treatment -- had she been treated earlier, it's believed she would have lived. Said Thurman's mother at the event : Initially, I did not want the public to know my pain. I wanted to go through in silence, but I realized that it was selfish. I want you to kno...