This fall reproductive health care access is on the ballot in nearly a dozen states.

Meanwhile, we're now learning more about the effects of abortion restrictions

enacted at the state level after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade two years ago.

John Yang reports.

I'm not ProPublica found at least two women in Georgia who died after being unable to get either a legal abortion or timely medical care.

Official state committees examining pregnancy related deaths concluded that both were preventable.

Georgia losses a physician can go to prison for performing an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.

The law does have an exception to prevent the death of a pregnant woman,

but positions say there's no guidance on how to interpret that.

Kavitha Serrano is the pro-publica journalist who reported this story.

Kavitha's stories illustrate two aspects of this Georgia law.

The first case involving Amber Nicole Thurman, she tried to get

an abortion out of state, missed her appointment for a traffic jam of all things, and so

it was prescribed a medication abortion what happened to her right and it's

important to make clear that abortion medication major medical organizations and studies have consistently found that they are safe and effective when taken appropriately, but they can cause complications.

And if complications happen, patients should go to the hospital

right away and expect to receive a DNC procedure.

That's the same kind of procedure that's used for both abortions and miscarriage care to remove any fetal tissue that remains.

So what we know is that Amber had complications, she went to the hospital and doctors waited 20 hours to provide a

DNC. They talked about it multiple times. They monitored her as her blood

pressure fell, her organs began failing, and ultimately when they did intervene, it was too late to save her life.

The maternal mortality review committee reviewed this case and they agreed that it was preventable and they said that the largest impact was the delay in receiving a DNC procedure.

...