Vice President Kamala Harris directed her team this week to immediately schedule a visit to Georgia following a media report that revealed two deaths linked to the battleground state’s abortion restrictions,

Harris' Atlanta trip follows ProPublica's investigation into the deaths of two Georgia women, which it tied to the state's six-week abortion ban.

At an Atlanta rally for reproductive rights at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris quoted Amber Nicole Thurman’s last request to her mother aloud, “Promise me you’ll take care of my son.”