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If only they gave her that option. |
“At one point, a physician advised Ms Watts that she should have her labour induced, a procedure that amounted to an abortion and would cause her to deliver the fetus but also put her at “significant risk” of death, according to those records obtained by the Associated Press.“ |
Terribly phrased question |
Exactly. So if delivering the fetus put her at a high risk of death, why did she leave and do it on her own? If there is a high risk of death involved wouldn’t you want to be at a hospital? |
Was there a foot that got stuck in the toilet? Did you also tell people your dead baby was in a bucket in your backyard? |
It’s not. That’s why they should have given her a d&c the FIRST time she came to the hospital instead of dragging it out. |
This entire thread shows how divided people are and dogmatic about their beliefs. They can’t see nuance or consider another point of view. The pro lifers automatically assume she was in the wrong and the pro choices jump to the conclusion she didn’t do anything wrong at all and the event was just like their miscarriage. Really the truth is likely somewhere in the middle. The lack of medical care is concerning and it’s also concerning someone found a foot stuck in her toilet. Most likely she has severe mental health issues since she’s telling people there is a body in a bucket in her backyard. |
this detail has not been highlighted enough. what it appears is that the doctor believed that inducing labor post-viability (at 22 weeks) would technically not be an abortion although the fetus would die soon after. but much more risky to the mother than just doing the d&c (which is unambiguously an abortion). ohio law is just brutal an inhumane. |
Is it a felony to leave the hospital AMA? What happened is that she was in the hospital and they were *not giving her medical care.* Under those circumstances, leaving is understandable. |
there is no nuance here because even the most extreme anti-choice version *is not a felony.* |
Are you dense? They weren't scheduling the procedure. They didn't because some religious freak shows feel like they need to insert themselves into all women's healthcare decisions. That is exactly why she didn't get the care that she required. Mind your own F-ing uterus, religious nutters. |
Was she induced before she left? |
Most sane people don’t refer to second trimester fetal remains as “a body”. Did the hospital give her a body bag to put it in if she passed it at home? What was otherwise available to her for placing what she thought were fetal remains in? A bucket seems as good a container as anything else. Would you have preferred a paper bag? A baking pan? A shoebox? Please enlighten us what women are supposed to do with the bloody remnants of a pregnancy. Because most of us don’t know. I flushed mine down the toilet. |
They told her she needed to be induced. How is that not offering her medical care? If she left of course they didn’t schedule a procedure. |
I am pro choice. So your last line is laughable. |