U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich helped to introduce a resolution on Tuesday in the Senate that every patient has the basic right to emergency health care, including abortion.

Senators introduced the resolution after ProPublica reported on the death of Amber Nicole Thurman, the Georgia woman who died after experiencing complications from a medical abortion she received in North Carolina, due to Georgia’s six-week ban on abortion.

Medical professionals said Thurman’s death was unnecessary and had a Georgia hospital stabilized her by suctioning out the tissue that remained, she would likely be alive today. 

The resolution states that every person has the basic right to emergency health care, including abortion care.

“Since the radical Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one in three women live in a state that bans or severely restricts access to reproductive healthcare. And now, women are dying because of these extreme laws. It is unconscionable, and worst of all, preventable,” Heinrich said through a news release. “Nobody should be left to pay the price for the Republican abortion bans. I will never stop fighting to restore the right to abortion under federal law and protect women’s freedoms to control their own bodies and make the decisions best for her life, family, and future.”