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The doctors and medical professionals you all are blaming and attacking and calling to be sued, fired, doxxed, etc, were doing their best to treat this woman and she left twice. She left the first time to “process information” and the second time no explanation is given, but there is a good chance she would have to be hospitalized after her life saving procedure and her mom/family would find out. The NYT says: “She returned the next day with the same symptoms and left a second time without treatment.” No explanation. I am sure the religious a-holes (invisible) forced her to leave again and almost die, those monsters! |
You are completely wrong and I have posted information sourced and linked to the New York Times to show you are wrong. |
Please donate to her go fund me account in honor of these horrible posters. Here’s the link! https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-brittany-watts |
The nurse was doing her job, she did her job, and did nothing wrong. |
She can go get her hair done. 😑 |
they are being doxxed because this case got public attention. the case got public attention because she was charged with a felony. she was charged with a felony because, yes, THE NURSE, chose to call the police without ascertaining the facts and relaying them correctly (that the fetus was nonviable/dead). THE NURSE called the police on her for HAVING A MISCARRIAGE. she miscarried at home because she didn’t get an immediate d&c. she didn’t get an immediate d&c because of Ohio’s laws. The only thing here I’d like to know more about is whethet the Ohio hospital made the choice to deliberately make her wait & suffer, or if they approved her for an abortion. |
The nurse did not do her job. A cursory review of the medical records would have told her that this was a miscarriage/stillbirth. There was no living baby. |
D&C was not the only option. But continue to assume you know the case best! |
Do you blame the law and politicians for hampering the medical professionals or not? |
Where does it show I was wrong? It states clearly she left while the hospital ethics panel was deliberating for EIGHT HOURS. There’s no source of public information explaining when/whether the hospital approved her for an abortion. There are some unclear statements about a doctor “offering” to induce her but noting it was more risky for her health. As far as we know, the hospital NEVER approved her d&c. |
It was the safest option and the one the doctors recommended. Why do you refuse to accept that? |
Will add some extra cash to my donation in your honor. |
An immediate D&C when she first showed up bleeding and with a nonviable fetus and an infection was the standard of care. Which she, incontrovertibley, did not receive. It’s unclear what the the reports on her being “offered an induction” means. I’ll be really curious to see more information about it. What I strongly suspect is that the Catholic hospital admins suggested a workaround of inducing labor at 22 weeks instead of the standard of care (D&C) because inducing labor after theoretical viability is technically not an abortion under Catholic doctrine and Ohio law. |
Yes the other option was induction which one of the doctors said could lead to her death. Did you ignore that part of the story? |
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I am still confused by all the details. I think that charging her was absolutely the wrong thing to do, and the police and prosecutor who participated in bringing those charges are doing absolutely the wrong thing.
However, I am not totally understanding the hatred being directed at the nurse. It seems to be based on three things. 1) She referred to the fetus as a baby. Which people do all the time. I am 100% pro choice. I do not think a fetus has the same status or rights as a born child. But I absolutely told my DH "Ooh, the baby is kicking" and my older child "There is a baby growing in mommy's tummy". Colloquially, lots of people use the word "baby" to refer to fetuses. 2) She called 911 about the claim that the remains fetus were in a bucket outside. To me, a fetal remains, or at least those that are far enough along to appear human in a bucket outside are a problem. They might be a problem because the medical team might want to test to them to see why the fetus died. They might be a problem, because no one wants a wild animal dragging that through your yard. They might be a problem because someone could be exposed to medical waste and potential germs. They might be a problem, because once she was past the trauma, Brittany Watts, who sounds like she was pretty dissociated and probably very out of it from blood loss, might have wanted to choose how to dispose of them. And, since I'm unclear what the nurse knew in the moment about the previous admissions, and the length of gestation, and the medical picture, might have been a problem because if she wasn't 100% sure that the fetus was delivered dead, then there was a responsibility to investigate. So, sending someone to the house to secure the bucket and investigate, and maybe look in the toilet once it was determined that the baby wasn't in the bucket, makes sense to me. And I don't know, other than 911, who you call to do that. So, in that moment, that might have been who I called. I like to think that where I live, in Maryland, you could call police to help a woman secure the remains of her miscarriage, for burial or medical testing, without that woman then having her charged with a crime, and before this I wouldn't even have occurred to me that I was putting her at risk of being charged with a crime. So, I guess I am saying that while I think the prosecutor and the police are awful human beings, I'm going to withhold judgment on this nurse. Now, if it turns out that there is a timeline where the nurse reviewed all the medical documentation before she made that call, or she was involved in previous medical care and so knew without a doubt that the fetus was dead, that might change my mind. But, otherwise, I'm going to ask. Before you read about this case. If you were suddenly faced with a bleeding disoriented woman who may not have seemed like a reliable narrator (trauma and blood loss will do that) who was far enough along in a pregnancy that the baby might have been viable, and said that she had delivered a baby, but didn't have a baby or corpse with her, and said that the body was in her backyard unprotected, what would you do? |