An Ohio woman who had sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN.
Brittany Watts, 33, of Warren, has been charged with felony abuse of a corpse, Trumbull County court records show.
“Ms. Watts suffered a tragic and dangerous miscarriage that jeopardized her own life. Rather than focusing on healing physically and emotionally, she was arrested and charged with a felony,” her attorney, Traci Timko, told CNN in an email.
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Though a coroner’s office report said the fetus was not viable and had died in the womb, Watts’ case highlights the extent to which prosecutors can charge a woman whose pregnancy has ended – whether by abortion or miscarriage.
Every woman in Ohio should call the coroner to report their monthly discharge, just in case
No! That’s what they want!
Every person in Ohio should recognize that when the rule of law is corrupted and broken, then [logical corrilary omitted bc it violated group rules].
We did, and we amended our constitution to protect women’s reproductive health in general and right to abortions in specific
Apparently you didn’t do it well it enough.
This event
A) is from before the vote
B) is not about abortion, but about prosecutorial overreach
…it justifies overthrowing the government and instituting a new one, and the people have the moral responsibility to do it.
There. FTFY
Mail it to them for autopsy just in case
No, everyone in Ohio should rise the fuck up and stop this stupidity.
This is what the “pro-life” movement is all about. Punishing women
You’re overlooking the fact that she legally could have had an abortion, and in fact was recommended to have one by the doctors multiple times.
A huge percentage of pregnancies end in miscarriage, very often before the woman even knows she was pregnant. This is the same. She should have to take special care of the mass her body rejected just because it was in there a little longer? What’s the cutoff for having to report that you had a miscarriage, then? Every period? Every time you have a period that’s a week or two late, because that is reasonably likely to have been a miscarriage?
This was a non-viable fetus. It was never going to be a person. It’s not a corpse.
The nurse that called 911 on her should be deeply ashamed of themselves
You jest, but imagine if every women spammed any govement instance with “I’m on my period.”
Go further… If men reported every “deposit” too
Do I report every time or just give the total at the end of the day?
Look at Mr Loads over here humble-flexin’
Is this not how you use Facebook? Is my family seeing my feed?
A huge percentage of pregnancies end in miscarriage
This was a stillbirth, not a miscarriage. 1 in 175. Not exactly a “huge percentage”.
She should have to take special care of the mass her body rejected just because it was in there a little longer?
Yeah, she should when she has been having an abortion recommended by the doctors but she just kept refusing and going home.
Every time you have a period that’s a week or two late, because that is reasonably likely to have been a miscarriage?
That’s absolutely not true.
This was a non-viable fetus. It was never going to be a person. It’s not a corpse.
And as such she could have gotten a legal abortion.
Read the article. She had a miscarriage.
You read the article:
It’s less common to naturally lose a fetus more than halfway through gestation – often known as stillbirth.
She lost the fetus naturally after 21 weeks. 21 is more than halfway through a 40 week gestation.
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Vials? What?
Are you okay?
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Please take your meds I’m begging you
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Right wing is cancer
Ah, but cancer isn’t malicious, so it’s technically better than the right.
It is, it just doesn’t know it.
Still technically better than the right.
More and more, we see direct evidence as to why Roe vs Wade was necessary.
Because rabid birthers will do anything to punish women who don’t give birth.
More and more, we see direct evidence as to why Roe vs Wade was necessary.
Except for the fact that she could have legally got an abortion, and was in fact recommended to do so by the doctors, yet she just walked out multiple times. Never let the truth get in the way of a good circle jerk though.
Ohio continuing its slow march onto the list of places I won’t travel to anymore. I’ve stopped voluntarily traveling (and spending money in) states I find politically abhorrent, and it feels great. Texas made the list last year, and Florida this year. Cancelled our FL vacation and decided to go to California instead.
The real fucked up part of this is Ohioans just voted to codify abortion and reproductive rights into the state constitution. This is just some assholes trying to find ways around that amendment.
We also voted to legalize weed and Republicans are trying to kneecap it by removing the right to grow any plants at home, limiting the amount you can carry, and limiting the concentration of THC allowed in any product.
Republicans hate democracy.
To be fair these are some of the same legal courses of action states like Washington have taken as well. Even legal cannabis is still a web of suppressive government bureaucracy, monopolistic tax structures, and punitive legal frameworks. We aren’t even close to what I would consider a just or equitable system, and every year it gets more heavily gentrified in favor of corporations who don’t give a single fuck about anybody who has suffered due to the war on drugs.
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Tangential, but I feel similarly and one of my bucket list items is a motorcycle trip across the country. At this point, do I just ride up to Canada, cross back over around New York? Or down to Tijuana, ride over until I hit ocean and swim around to Jersey? Serious question, should I pack mittens or water wings?
She could have legally had an abortion there though. The doctors recommended it multiple times. Instead she just walked out multiple times. How are so many people overlooking this?
Too bad medical science can’t invent a killer virus that takes out right wing fundamentalists with pinpoint accuracy.
They did a decent job on their own thinning their numbers with Covid.
Not enough sadly.
Maybe HIV, AIDS and other veneric syndroms then? If they would indeed stop using contraceptives themselves like they preach for others to do, there’s a lot of awful illneses coming from that shortsighted pro-birth position. I won’t wish anyone to endure them, yet, I’m all for putting one’s genitals where one puts one’s ballot.
This implies most of them are having sex. They ain’t.
Nobody wanna fuck them. That’s part of the reason they hate women.
It’s not true, many of them are married and have kids.
That’s just propaganda you bought into because it reinforces a preconceived notion of yours.
Yeah, exactly. Plenty of women lining up to fuck these assholes too for some strange reason (well I do know the reason, they figure these laws don’t apply to them, etc. Inb4 law that binds quote)
Just like Fox Mulder, I want to believe. I’ve seen news about that, or rather opinion pieces mostly, but they are so ideally in line with my thoughts I can’t break my sense of disbelief. I find that a comforting fiction.
There’s a part of a population that have abusive, irrational behavior in their relationships as a part of their ‘culture’. Take eastern countries, take overly religious dens sparking across Europe. There women are kind of happy to serve the predestined role of full-body-covered sex and child-giver because they just don’t know better.
I don’t usually chat with conservative people from the US, but I have a lot of women at home who can normalize everything, even explicit and regular domestic violence. Growing up in such a household can stun a person from knowing there’s a life better than that. And I’m sure even the worst pieces of shit can have their prefered genitals on a plate if they find the right person who has a history of such abuse.
And having women protest their reproductive rights in the US kinda rings the bell that’s there’re many persons who’d be okay to lay with an idiot who’d want to strip them of all rights. It’s depressing, but pointing out the problem is a first step to solve it.
So they are indeed endangered by veneric stuff.
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The day they stop trying to shove their own personal religious choices down everyone else’s throat and criminalizing what should be a woman’s own bodily autonomy is the day I stop feeling this way.
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They’re trying to genocide black and lgbt+ people and oppress women.
So, no, it isn’t a bit much.
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I seem to have misplaced my violin as it’s so tiny.
But to quote their ridiculous ancient book of nonsense, you reap what you sow.
Why did you try to list people who aren’t right wing fundamentalists?
You’re making a strawman so you can be outraged.
Go back to fox news grandpa, your need for rage has you fapping at strangers on lemmy.
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Ok boomer
Who the hell would want to get pregnant in the US at this point?
People who think politics doesn’t affect them.
The laaaaaaaaand of the freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
She’s black so the point is it’s supposed to be ok.
I wish I was joking.
Wtf…
Conservatives are fascists.
Why are people still surprised at how cruel they will be?
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The hospital staff notified the Warren Police Department, which responded to Watts’ home, the coroner’s office report says.
CNN reached out to the hospital for comment about why staff notified police. Maureen Richmond, vice president of integrated communications at Mercy Health – a Catholic health care system that includes St. Joseph Warren Hospital – sent the following statement to CNN:
“The safety and security of every patient who comes to us for care is our highest priority. Out of respect for patient privacy, we will not discuss individual specifics of care.
Except when it comes to snitching on people.
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Agreed. I’d join the curb stomping brigade.
metaphorically, this is for legal purposes a sarcastic expression of anger
for practical purposes, no it isn’t
I knew my comment would get removed by some coward. Yours probably will too.
I can still see it… maybe an instance thing?
Yeah idk. It got deleted by two different lemmyworld mods lol
