At an Atlanta rally for reproductive rights at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris quoted Amber Nicole Thurman’s last request to her mother aloud, “Promise me you’ll take care of my son.”

"That story was the personification of the Black maternal health crisis," Harris campaign co-chair Sen. Laphonza Butler said of Harris’ retelling of Amber Nicole Thurman’s death at a Georgia campaign event.

VP Kamala Harris will return to Atlanta on Friday. The Presidential nominee will address the deaths of two Black women who passed following Georgia’s strict abortion bans. Earlier this week, ProPublica’s report revealed that Amber Thurman and Candi Miller’s deaths were impacted by Georgia’s strict abortion ban and the U.