A republican consultant in South Carolina appeared to struggle again tears as he recounted the story of a 19-year-old affected by a invoice limiting abortion.

Throughout a current public listening to for the Home Judiciary Committee on new laws that may ban most abortions in South Carolina, Rep. Neal Collins mentioned he beforehand voted in favor of the fetal heartbeat invoice, which bans all abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected — which is round 6 weeks right into a being pregnant.

Collins mentioned shortly after that invoice turned a regulation, he obtained a name from a health care provider a couple of 19-year-old who was at a neighborhood ER.

“She was 15 weeks pregnant. Her water broke,” mentioned Collins in a clip captured by Every day Kos. “The fetus was unviable.”

“The attorneys advised the medical doctors that due to the fetal heartbeat invoice, as a result of that 15-week-old had a heartbeat, the medical doctors couldn’t extract [the fetus]. So their solely decisions have been to confess the 19-year-old till that fetal heartbeat stopped” or discharge her.

He mentioned he requested how lengthy it will take for the heartbeat to cease and was advised, “seconds, minutes, hours, perhaps days.” Docs finally discharged the 19-year-old, who Collins mentioned was despatched dwelling to cope with the loss “on her personal” and confronted a 50 p.c probability of shedding her uterus within the course of. A physician advised Collins there was a 10 p.c probability the teenager would “develop sepsis and herself die.”

“That weighs on me,” Collins mentioned. “I voted for that invoice. These are affecting individuals, and we’re having a gathering about this.”

After a quick pause, Collins mentioned he did not get any sleep for days; every week later, he mentioned he reached out to the physician, who didn’t understand how {the teenager} was doing.

After following up two weeks later, Collins came upon the 19-year-old got here again to the ER and medical doctors “extract[ed]” the fetus, which at that time not had a heartbeat.

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“What we do issues,” mentioned Collins, showing to carry again tears.

He continued, “Out of respect for the method, I am not voting immediately. However I needed to be clear that myself and plenty of others should not ready to vote for this invoice with out important adjustments to the invoice.”

In a 13-7 vote, the committee opted to maneuver a near-total abortion ban ahead to the Home flooring, in keeping with The State, The Related Press and The Hill.

Collins didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

On June 24, the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional proper to an abortion and letting particular person states resolve whether or not to permit them.

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The 6-to-Three ruling reverses practically 50 years of precedent and can fully change the panorama of girls’s reproductive rights by giving particular person states the ability to resolve whether or not to permit the process. It’s estimated that almost half the nation will enact near-total bans within the coming months. The choice will divide the nation, with most blue states permitting abortion and most crimson states severely limiting it.