Outraged Texas DJ shares how state's new abortion laws stopped 13 weeks pregnant wife getting termination after she suffered miscarriage, leaving them terrified she'd get sepsis

A Texas radio DJ is speaking out against the state's abortion laws after his wife suffered a life-threatening experience while going through a miscarriage and doctors refused to help.

Ryan Hamilton and his wife Jess were expecting their second child when at nearly 13 weeks along in her pregnancy, they learned the fetus no longer had a heartbeat and she was having a miscarriage.

The devastated couple went to the Surepoint Emergency Center branch near their home in North Texas where Jess was prescribed misoprostol, a drug commonly used for medical management of miscarriages and abortions.

However, a 'painful night of the equivalent of early labor,' Hamilton's wife was unable to pass the fetus and when they went back to the center for help, doctors refused to provide another dose because of the Texas abortion law.

'The conversation is not what's best for my wife. The conversation is on the hospital side, "What should we do,"' Hamilton told CBS News.

Hamilton said the doctor told them, 'Due to the current stance, I cannot prescribe this medicine for you.' 

In Texas, abortions are banned after six weeks except for when the life or health of the pregnant patient is at risk.

Abortion is currently punishable by up to 99 years in prison in Texas, for both the woman who undergoes the procedure and the medical professional assisting her. 

'You start thinking about the women that have to drive across state lines. We've heard these stories,' Hamilton said.

'And you — just as a husband, you go, "Is that what we're gonna have to do?"'

'You want to panic, but you can't. What are we going to do? Leave the baby inside her so she can get an infection? Get sepsis that can kill her,' he said.

Hamilton and his wife decided to drive to another hospital an hour away where doctors again confirmed the fetus did not have a heartbeat, but told them it was not enough of an emergency situation to perform surgery to remove the tissue.

'I think the delay is their confusion on what they're allowed to do. That's what it feels like. They feel scared. The doctors feel scared,' Hamilton said.

Doctors sent them home with another round of medication and a few hours later Hamilton found his wife unconscious in the bathroom surrounded by blood.

'I got to the hospital, ran inside, told them what was happening. And they took her in. And you know what they said? "Thank God, you brought her,"' he said.

'I want people to know that this really happens. My fear is that stories like ours will continue to get told and not believed.'

'Everything in her life right now that she's having to do to get better is not just a reminder of the baby that we lost, it's a reminder of what they put her through, and she has to do it every day,' Hamilton said.

Since the US Supreme Court overturned its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling in June 2022, Texas has implemented some of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country.

The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January that Texas can ban emergency abortions despite federal guidance requiring emergency room doctors to perform the procedure if the mother's life is in danger.

The decision came in response to a lawsuit from Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and two anti-abortion medical associations accusing President Joe Biden's administration of overstepping its authority on abortion.

In December, the Texas Supreme Court denied a request for an emergency order allowing a pregnant mother to have a termination because her unborn baby suffered from a fatal illness.