Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee criticized the partisan point-scoring nature of a rare hearing on abortion complications following the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Finance Committee chairman, announced the hearing on abortion, a topic not usually discussed by the committee, following the news of the preventable death of Amber Thurman from abortion pill complications in August 2022, the first recorded abortion-related death after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.