{"id":330945,"date":"2025-05-08T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=330945"},"modified":"2025-05-08T08:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:23:20","slug":"south-carolina-pro-life-law-miscarriage-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/south-carolina-pro-life-law-miscarriage-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Is South Carolina’s pro-life law to blame for denial of a post-miscarriage D&C?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in South Carolina told PEOPLE<\/a> she was denied miscarriage care following the loss of her “very wanted” baby… because of the state’s pro-life law.<\/p>\n

Elisabeth Weber told the magazine that she was pregnant with her fifth child after losing her son Stone to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in 2018. She and her husband, Thomas, were excited to be pregnant, but on March 27, at nine weeks pregnant, she learned that her baby, Enzo, had tragically stopped growing at about six weeks. She said her OB\/GYN told her it was “most likely a miscarriage.”<\/p>\n

No heartbeat detected<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Weber had that first ultrasound at nine weeks, no heartbeat could be detected.<\/p>\n

The next day, she experienced cramping, and her OB reportedly told her to go to the ER. A scan there again<\/em> showed that there was no heartbeat. However, Weber was still dealing with the symptoms of being pregnant, including extreme morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum (HG).<\/p>\n

“My body was not recognizing that I wasn’t pregnant anymore,” she said. “I was still completely bedridden with nausea, throwing up all the time.” Four days later, on March 31, she returned to the ER in pain and on the advice of her OB. She was again<\/em> told that there was no heartbeat at nine weeks and three days.<\/p>\n

It seems from Weber’s video testimonial that she returned to the ER once again \u2014 and this is when she appears to have requested a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure, in which the remains of the baby and placenta are scraped or suctioned out of the uterus to complete the miscarriage. She was still experiencing extreme nausea. “With my HG and all of that, I’m so sick,” she said. “I have three kids, and waiting around to go into a mini-labor is just hard.”<\/p>\n

However, she claims doctors at the ER told her, “Because of the law \u2014 the heartbeat bill \u2014 we legally have to wait.”<\/p>\n

She said, “My baby didn’t have a heartbeat, and it still prevented me from getting care,” adding that she was asked if the pregnancy was “wanted.”<\/p>\n

“And I was like, ‘Yes, it’s very much wanted.’ She seemed to be implying that I was trying to sneakily get rid of it. Obviously, that was not the case. I looked at her and literally was like, ‘My baby is dead. Every doctor I’ve talked to knows my baby is dead. My baby is not going to magically get a heartbeat<\/a>.'”<\/p>\n

Weber was told that in order to get a D&C, she would need to wait, but to come back if she “started heavily bleeding, like hemorrhaging.” However, in a TikTok video<\/a>, Weber said that doctors told her that they had to wait two weeks<\/em> to ensure there was no heartbeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy baby has been sitting inside me dead for three weeks already,\u201d Weber said in a tearful and heartbreaking TikTok video during which she said had to wait another week knowing my baby is dead to do anything about it.\u201d She also stated that she was “raised in a cult and was forced to stand in front of abortion clinics as a CHILD,” and made sure to point out that she is “not conservative and… did NOT vote for trump.”<\/p>\n

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@elisabeth__hope<\/a>EDIT: I recorded this minutes after finding this information out, so not everything was worded correctly. I was raised in a cult and was forced to stand in front of abortion clinics as a CHILD. I am not conservative and I did NOT vote for trump.\u266c original sound – Elisabeth Hope<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n