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.

Speaking in Atlanta Friday, Vice President Harris called tougher abortion laws “immoral” and slammed Republicans for what she called “longstanding neglect” around maternal mortality.

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.