Candi Miller dies at home in Georgia after ordering abortion pills abroad and avoiding hospital care she feared under the state's abortion ban

On November 12, 2022, Candi Miller, a 36-year-old Georgia woman with lupus, diabetes, and hypertension — conditions that doctors had warned made another pregnancy potentially fatal — died at home after taking abortion pills she had ordered from abroad and developing incomplete abortion complications. Georgia's LIFE Act was in effect and made no exception for pre-existing chronic conditions that would make a pregnancy life-threatening over time. Miller's family told investigators she avoided going to the hospital because of the state's abortion law. Georgia's state maternal mortality review committee concluded her death was "preventable" and that the state's abortion ban directly influenced her decision not to seek care. Georgia disbanded the entire committee within months of ProPublica publishing its findings.