Kamala Harris will give a speech in the Atlanta area on Friday about Donald Trump’s role in the abortion bans that are now in place in much of the United States. Just days earlier, it was announced that two mothers from Georgia had died because they did not have access to legal abortions and adequate medical care.

In the weeks since she was named the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris has made reproductive rights a central theme of her campaign, traveling the country to raise awareness of the health consequences of the 2022 overturning of the Roe v. Wade ruling, which paved the way for more than a dozen states to ban nearly all abortions.

Harris blames the former president for Roe’s demise because Trump appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who overturned the landmark ruling. Her campaign has also criticized Republicans for repeatedly blocking Senate bills that would have guaranteed a federal right to in vitro fertilization, a popular fertility treatment whose future was in question after Roe’s overturn.

The deaths of Georgia mothers Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller were first reported by ProPublica earlier this week. They occurred as a result of a Georgia ban on abortion beginning at six weeks of pregnancy. The Georgia Maternal Mortality Review Committee investigated the cases of both women and concluded that their deaths were “preventable,” according to ProPublica.

Although Georgia allows abortions in medical emergencies, doctors across the country say the abortion exceptions are so vaguely worded as to be impractical. Instead, doctors say, they must stand by until patients are sick enough to legally intervene.

After Thurman took abortion pills to end a pregnancy in 2022, her body was unable to expel all of the fetal tissue – a rare but potentially devastating complication, according to ProPublica. Doctors delayed the 28-year-old’s routine procedure for 20 hours, and she developed sepsis. During emergency surgery, her heart stopped.

“This young mother should be alive, raising her son and pursuing her dream of attending nursing school,” Harris said of Thurman in a statement earlier this week. “This is exactly what we feared would happen when Roe was struck down.”

Harris added: “These are the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions.”

During the campaign, Trump alternated between boasting about helping to overturn Roe, complaining that Republicans lost the election because of their hardline stance against abortion, and vacillating on his own stance on the procedure.

Abortion access has become one of the most important issues for voters over the past two years, and Democrats are hoping that the outrage over Roe will give them a victory at the ballot box in November. Votes on abortion laws will be held in 10 states, including the key swing states of Nevada and Arizona, which could boost Democratic turnout.