Vice President Kamala Harris blasted the strict abortion laws that have passed in GOP-controlled states just days after the first maternal deaths tied to Georgia’s six-week abortion ban became public.

This story originally appeared on Georgia Recorder. The deaths of two Georgia women have reignited the debate over the state’s abortion restrictions that took effect two years ago and put a new focus on an exception in the law that purports to protect mothers when their own health is imperiled.

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Friday afternoon in Georgia about abortion rights amid the news that broke this week of two young women who died following taking abortion pills within six months of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.