South Carolina woman’s fetus has been dead for weeks but doctors won’t treat it as a miscarriage because of the law: ‘I’m afraid I’ll get sepsis’

A South Carolina woman named Ashley Brown has just spent three weeks dealing with the fallout from a non-viable pregnancy. Despite it being confirmed by her doctors, restrictive state laws have prevented her from receiving medical intervention to end it, which she has feared can lead to sepsis. In a video that got 5.4 million views, she shared that she was looking for options in Orlando while on vacation. However, Florida state laws made her embrace alternate solution

Ashley told her TikTok audience that Planned Parenthood stated that they could give her a D&C procedure if there was no heartbeat. However, to qualify for that, she needed to wait 11 days between scans. “I have to have an elective abortion tomorrow on vacation, because I don’t want to wait any longer,” she shared. “I’m also incredibly concerned about going septic, and I’d rather just have it removed today and move on with my life than be in the hospital for sepsis.”