Woman charged with felony for having a stillbirth

[Anonymous]

Woman charged with felony for trying to clean up a 22-week stillbirth at home after being refused care at a hospital.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/warren-news/trumbull-county-grand-jury-to-hear-abuse-of-corpse-case/

[Anonymous]

Law Journal article about legal persecution of women who miscarry
https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cjgl/article/view/8061/4147

[Anonymous]

That poor woman. She was probably in shock.

[Anonymous]

She is not being charged with having a stillborn. She is being charged for abuse of a corpse for leaving the dead baby in the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Oh hey look Ohio, what a surprise.

[Anonymous]

WTF is wrong with those prosecutors?

[Anonymous]

Why'd she leave it in the toilet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why'd she leave it in the toilet?

Maybe she was feeling ill. Maybe it was too bloody. Maybe she’s never held a dead baby before and couldn’t do it.

Does it matter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why'd she leave it in the toilet?

Probably because she'd just had a miscarriage, was in shock, and didn't know what to do. I cannot imagine thinking someone needs to be criminally prosecuted for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is not being charged with having a stillborn. She is being charged for abuse of a corpse for leaving the dead baby in the toilet.

Still stupid. She had a miscarriage. The "baby" was never alive. She was probably not feeling great, confused, panicked, etc. There was likely blood, she didn't know what to do. Hell, maybe it was too slippery to pick up. Maybe she felt faint. Why the hell should someone be subjected to criminal prosecution for this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is not being charged with having a stillborn. She is being charged for abuse of a corpse for leaving the dead baby in the toilet.

Still stupid. She had a miscarriage. The "baby" was never alive. She was probably not feeling great, confused, panicked, etc. There was likely blood, she didn't know what to do. Hell, maybe it was too slippery to pick up. Maybe she felt faint. Why the hell should someone be subjected to criminal prosecution for this?

+1

So fcked up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is not being charged with having a stillborn. She is being charged for abuse of a corpse for leaving the dead baby in the toilet.

Still stupid. She had a miscarriage. The "baby" was never alive. She was probably not feeling great, confused, panicked, etc. There was likely blood, she didn't know what to do. Hell, maybe it was too slippery to pick up. Maybe she felt faint. Why the hell should someone be subjected to criminal prosecution for this?

Not to mention that she had visited the hospital twice and was told the fetus was non-viable. This case is absolutely bonkers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t “don’t flush a corpse” common knowledge? I mean it’s not a goldfish it’s a human.

My “common knowledge “ doesn’t cover miscarriages or stillbirths outside of a hospital setting.
Since yours apparently does, please describe, in as detailed a way as you can manage, what exactly “common knowledge “ would have someone do in this situation.

I would probably call 911 and ask for help, and follow their instructions. But I get that after going through something traumatic and being turned away from from the hospital, the poor woman was in shock, and didn’t know what to do.

Really, common sense doesn’t tell you not to add a dead baby to the public water supply? It was apparently large enough that she tried plunging it and it didn’t go down so we’re not talking about just a large glob of cells…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t “don’t flush a corpse” common knowledge? I mean it’s not a goldfish it’s a human.

My “common knowledge “ doesn’t cover miscarriages or stillbirths outside of a hospital setting.
Since yours apparently does, please describe, in as detailed a way as you can manage, what exactly “common knowledge “ would have someone do in this situation.

I would probably call 911 and ask for help, and follow their instructions. But I get that after going through something traumatic and being turned away from from the hospital, the poor woman was in shock, and didn’t know what to do.

Really, common sense doesn’t tell you not to add a dead baby to the public water supply? It was apparently large enough that she tried plunging it and it didn’t go down so we’re not talking about just a large glob of cells…

Everyone flushes their miscarriage if it happens at home.

Do you think there is a clear toilet bowl so you can see what came out? You’re talking about a bowl of blood with something under it invisible to the eye.

Why didn’t a doctor extract the non viable fetus to avoid a catastrophic episode in this persons life like a normal stillborn/miscarriage?

[Anonymous]

It’s pretty common to sit on a toilet while miscarrying. I know I did during mine. It’s a bloody painful, out of your mind mess. Poor woman.