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00:00With early voting underway in a few states, presidential candidate Kamala Harris is banking
00:06on one key issue to lure voters, abortion.
00:10At a last-minute rally on Friday, Harris cast Donald Trump and his party as hypocrites,
00:16blaming the former president for an abortion ban in the battleground state of Georgia.
00:21Her intense focus on abortion rights is a new development, coming this week after a
00:26widely-spread news report about a woman who died as a result of delayed medical care.
00:31And we will speak her name.
00:34Amber Nicole Thurman.
00:37Amber Nicole Thurman.
00:40Amber Nicole Thurman.
00:44Amber Thurman, age 28, died in 2022 in Georgia, where most abortions are banned after six
00:50weeks of pregnancy.
00:53She tried to end her pregnancy by taking prescription pills in another state, but upon returning
00:58to Georgia, faced complications.
01:01She developed sepsis and died while waiting more than 20 hours at the hospital for a routine
01:07medical procedure.
01:09Her doctors could have faced up to a decade in prison for providing Amber the care she
01:18needed.
01:20Doctors have to wait until the patient is at death's door before they take action.
01:30The night before, she sat with popular television host Oprah Winfrey and discussed the tragedy
01:36with Thurman's family.
01:38Abortion is one of the few issues where Harris has a clear advantage over Trump.
01:43A New York Times and Siena College poll of likely voters found that 54 percent of them
01:49trust her to do a better job on abortion rights, compared with 41 percent who trust Trump.
01:56On several other key issues, like the economy, Trump holds an advantage.