Newlywed woman blasts abortion laws after she was forced to wait to miscarry ... trends now

A newlywed from Arizona was left devastated after Arizona abortion laws forced her to wait to miscarry her baby boy and led to a traumatic emergency surgery. 

Ashley Ortiz of Phoenix was freshly and happily married when she found out in July that she and her husband were expecting a baby.

'We found out we were gonna have a boy and everything looked great in terms of all the testing,' Ortiz told Arizona's Family. 

However - at the 20-week ultrasound, Ortiz received the devastating news that her pregnancy was not viable and she was already in pre-term labor.

Ortiz said she felt 'complete disappointment' - adding that she was 'really excited to meet' her son.

She was admitted to hospital and told that her fetus no chance of surviving - but doctors told her it was illegal to give her medicine to induce delivery because of Arizona's controversial 15 week abortion ban.

Tragically, there was nothing for Ortiz to do but wait to get really sick or for the baby's heart to stop.

'Its very dangerous for people to have to go through that - also heartbreaking for the person, for me, and for my husband,' the heartbroken wife said. 

On Christmas eve - the fetus's heart stopped. Ortiz was given medicine and she delivered him.

Further tragedy struck when complications due to delayed care occurred during the labor and Ortiz was forced to go into an emergency surgery. 

'It was brutal... physically and emotionally,' she said. 

Because of the blood clotting and the trauma, the surgical procedure took three times as long as it usually would.

She is still processing the grief of losing her baby - which was only amplified by the fact that the intense trauma she went through was

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