On Sept. 16, 2024, Emily Waldorf’s daughter found her curled up on the bathroom floor, bleeding during a dangerous miscarriage at 17 weeks pregnant. Waldorf and her husband rushed to an Arkansas hospital, expecting emergency care. Instead, doctors told her they could not intervene under the state’s abortion ban because a fetal heartbeat was still present. Doctors told her she could remain at the hospital until she got sick, or drive nearly four hours to a hospital in Kansas, which has no abortion ban. She had worked at the Arkansas hospital for the past six years. She was a highly educated 38-year-old woman with connections to the governor. Even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor and hired a lawyer, she still could not get care. As she lay in a hospital bed, worried that infection could enter her uterus at any moment, she finally understood that the ban now applied to anyone losing a baby. Watch her tell her story