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Woman charged with felony for having a stillbirth
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Anonymous
None of your hypotheticals make criminal prosecution remotely appropriate? She had a miscarriage at home. Who the hell cares what happens to the dead fetus after that? Even if you are adamently pro-life and against abortion in all situations, there is NO compelling governmental interest in what happens to the remains of a miscarriage. I mean hell... plenty of women technically miscarry at 4 or 5 or 6 weeks pregnant and those remains get flushed down the toilet literally every day all across the country. Should that be illegal? Should that be anyone's business at all? Of course not. This is the very same thing, just more tragic and risky for the mother. |
Anonymous
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Another article with a few more insights.
https://apnews.com/article/ohio-miscarriage-prosecution-brittany-watts-b8090abfb5994b8a23457b80cf3f27ce "Canary in the coal mine". |
Anonymous
Sounds exactly like I imagined the real details would be. This is the biggest nothing burger of a case. I hope she sues the sh&t out of Ohio and that hospital for the trauma she will carry for the rest of her life. |
Anonymous
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“An Ohio prosecutor says it is not within his power to drop a criminal charge against a woman who miscarried in the restroom at her home, regardless of the pressure being brought to bear by the national attention on her case.
Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said in a release issued late Tuesday that he is obligated to present the felony abuse-of-corpse charge against Brittany Watts, 33, of Warren, to a grand jury.” https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/ohio-prosecutor-says-hes-duty-bound-to-bring-miscarriage-case-to-a-grand-jury |
Anonymous
Confirmed that it was a Catholic hospital, and also that her fetus still had a heartbeat although it was nonviable, which was also an easy guess: “Watts miscarried at home on Sept. 22, days after a doctor told her that her fetus had a heartbeat but was nonviable. She twice visited Mercy Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Warren and twice left before receiving care.” Anyone who is following the issues that are coming up post Roe could have guessed that this was the case, when we did we were reported to Jeff for making things up. |
Anonymous
That is a stone's throw from being charged with having a still born. And just as tone deaf and ridiculous. The woman was post-giving birth, hormonal, probably in shock. In denial. Bleeding. And experiencing 10 other emotions we don't even know of. But it's Ohio. Of course it is. Florida of the North. But, it's this sort of thing that imo will keep Republicans out of office nationally. |
Anonymous
X a million. |
Anonymous
| I am unclear whether the fetus was in a bucket in her yard or stuck in a toilet which had to be unassembled. Media reports have said both these things. |
Anonymous
Oh God, it's so hard to be a whiie educated man in American. The horrors! |
Anonymous
My understanding is that she removed what she could from the toilet into the bucket and thought the remains were in there, but they were actually lodged in the plumbing. |
Anonymous
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As someone who had a stillbirth, which was the worst and darkest time of grief in my life, what Republicans are doing to this woman makes me sick to my stomach. It is horrific. They are making her out to be some kind of callous monster. They are the monsters. And I hope it’s not lost on anyone that they chose to prosecute a Black woman. Racism and sexism weaponized by the government to destroy this woman’s life, likely in the darkest hour of her grief. Do you know what the hospital offered to me when I delivered my full term, stillborn baby? They offered to “take care of it.” I don’t even know what that means. Bury it with other human remains / hospital waste (removed organs, etc.? Dispose of it some other way? We wound up having a funeral and cremating and burying her in a cemetery, which to this day brings me great peace, but I will tell you in the fog of grief and disbelief it is hard to know what to do. And I could have easily made a different decision. Easily. I was out of my mind with shock and grief. I pray for this woman. They are ripping her to pieces. It’s not right.
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Anonymous
If you have not watched Handmaids Tale or read the book, I suggest ALL women read it now. It started off with small very little changes to women's rights then escalated. This is crazy scary on so many levels. |
Anonymous
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So she actually went to the hospital after the miscarriage. She didn't just "go about her day".
Also. The nurse is the one who called the police on her. And then rubbed her back and comforted her while she was being interrogated by the police. That woman can burn in h3ll. |
Anonymous
+1 Vile, vile woman. |
Anonymous
X a billion -Republican |