Woman who miscarried charged with a crime.

[progressive hunter]

It was a fucking miscarriage, the Woman was refused treatment at a hospital. What part of that is so fucking hard to understand.

what opart of that matters??

 

[bodecea]

same social benefit we get from every other prosecution

False prosecutions? I sure hope all women are paying attention.

 

[Mac-7]

The hospital refused to treat her issue so she went home.

Her lawyer, Traci Timko, said Watts sat for eight hours at Mercy Health-St. Joseph’s awaiting care on the eve of her pregnancy reaching 22 weeks, before leaving without being treated.

Unacceptable.

Black Ohio woman criminally charged after miscarriage underscores the perils of pregnancy post-Roe

Thats a damn lie

She went home BEFORE the hospital could see her

But they never refused service

 

[Mac-7]

She was charged for throwing her dead baby in a bucket. She wasn't charged for miscarrying.

Liberals often can move the needle when they tell the truth

So they lie a lot

 

[pknopp]

Thats a damn lie

She went home BEFORE the hospital could see her

But they never refused service

Read the link. She went to the hospital three times. They didn't want to treat her.

 

[marvin martian]

This is Republican governance – authoritarian, cruel, dystopian.

The right’s war on women continues.

You can't even define what a woman is, nerd.

 

[Zincwarrior]

same social benefit we get from every other prosecution

What is the crime we are trying to stop here?

 

[progressive hunter]

What is the crime we are trying to stop here?

read the OP,,,

 

[marvin martian]

What is the crime we are trying to stop here?

Tossing a dead baby into a bucket and then into the garbage.

 

[Mac-7]

Read the link. She went to the hospital three times. They didn't want to treat her.

People often spend hours in the emergency room waiting for free service

She refused to wait till it was her turn

 

[Zincwarrior]

read the OP,,,

I did. her case is horrible, for her.

Now answer the question. What are we socially trying to stop here?

After a miscarriage - The Miscarriage Association

After a miscarriage, you may well need time to recover physically as well as emotionally. You may have some questions about what happens to the remains of your baby, or you might be asked to make some difficult decisions. Physical recovery after a miscarriage Everyone is different, but many...

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After the miscarriage: what happens to your baby​

When a baby dies before 24 weeks of pregnancy, there is no legal requirement to have a burial or cremation. Even so, most hospitals have sensitive disposal policies and your baby may be cremated or buried, perhaps along with the remains of other miscarried babies.

Guidance from the Royal College of Nursing advises that hospitals should offer parents the option of arranging individual or shared cremation or burial of pregnancy remains, usually paid for by the Trust; or, if parents prefer, the option of taking the baby’s remains home and making private arrangements. You should be given time to decide – as well as the option not to make a decision at all.

However, actual practice varies a great deal and sadly, some hospitals may still treat the remains of an early loss as clinical waste unless you request otherwise. (This is not illegal in England and Wales, although Scottish government guidance is different.)

If you want to find out about the arrangements at your hospital, ask a nurse or midwife on the ward or unit where you were cared for, the hospital chaplain, the PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison) officer, or the hospital bereavement service.

You may want to make your own arrangements for burying or cremating the remains of your baby, whether you use a funeral director or a specialist cremation service or choose to bury the remains at home or somewhere else. You can read more about this on page 14 of this leaflet and below. There are some things to think about and you may want to contact us for further information.

If you miscarry at home​

If you miscarry at home or somewhere else that’s not a hospital, you are very likely to pass the remains of your pregnancy into the toilet. (This can happen in hospital too.) You may look at what has come away and see a pregnancy sac and/or the fetus – or something you think might be the fetus. You might want to simply flush the toilet – many people do that automatically – or you may want to remove the remains for a closer look. That’s natural too.

You might think about bringing the remains to your GP or hospital, perhaps for them to confirm that you have miscarried or because they may be able to do some tests. Tests on pregnancy remains aren’t usually done unless you are having other investigations, but if they are, you may be asked to keep the remains cold until you can bring them to the hospital.

You might choose to ask the hospital or GP to dispose of the remains of your pregnancy. Or you may decide to bury the remains yourself: at home, in the garden (as Erin did); or in a planter with flowers or a shrub; or perhaps somewhere else, as Jenny did. There are some things to think about and you may want to contact us for further information.

 

[progressive hunter]

I did. her case is horrible, for her.

Now answer the question. What are we socially trying to stop here?

yes it is,, but thats no excuse for making it worse,,

what does socially have to do with it,, we have laws and she broke them,,

 

[Zincwarrior]

yes it is,, but thats no excuse for making it worse,,

what does socially have to do with it,, we have laws and she broke them,,

What law? All miscarriages are now human remains to be buried? Someone better tell all the women out there.

 

[pknopp]

People often spend hours in the emergency room waiting for free service

She refused to wait till it was her turn

Your actually concerns over a pregnant woman on full display here.

 

[progressive hunter]

What law? All miscarriages are now human remains to be buried? Someone better tell all the women out there.

when did "buried" become part of this??

 

[Zincwarrior]

when did "buried" become part of this??

Then what was she supposed to do? Mansplain it for me.

 

[Weatherman2020]

It was a fucking miscarriage, the Woman was refused treatment at a hospital. What part of that is so fucking hard to understand.

And it’s illegal for her to just toss a dead baby in the trash.

You evildoers hate children. If you’re not molesting them you’re murdering them.

 

[progressive hunter]

Then what was she supposed to do? Mansplain it for me.

she could have started with calling 911 since she just had a medical emergency,,

 

[airplanemechanic]

Sounds like a common waiting room problem. Eight hours isn't even that long.

Her crime was felony abuse of a corpse. Did she wrap up the remains and toss it in the trash. Human remains are generally treated with some kind of respect.

No, her crime was misdemeanor abuse of a corpse.

 

[Mac-7]

Read the link. She went to the hospital three times. They didn't want to treat her.

You read the link

Each time she left on her own

Before police began to investigate Watts, the medical office receptionist had spent the three previous days in and out of the hospital as her pregnancy faltered.

By the time she first visited the hospital on Sept. 19, Watts already suspected she was miscarrying. She was passing large clots of blood and describing her pain as intense, according to her medical records. Doctors confirmed her suspicions, telling her that although there was fetal cardiac activity, the pregnancy was not viable. Watts left the hospital that day against medical advice, telling the doctor she could “better process what was happening to her at home.”

The next morning, Watts returned, expecting to be induced to deliver her preterm pregnancy. Abortion is currently legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy in Ohio. For the next eight hours, doctors and officials determined the ethics of inducing labor for a woman who had been diagnosed with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), had no detectable amniotic fluid, was bleeding vaginally and had advanced cervical dilation.

One doctor was particularly blunt about the urgency of inducing Watts’s delivery: “My recommendation instead of waiting until mom is on death’s door before proceeding with treatment, [is] to deliver this baby” by inducing, the doctor wrote.

Seven hours later, Watts still had not been induced. She wanted to leave, according to medical records. Finally, when the doctor returned to the hospital room to discuss the induction plan, records state, Watts’s bed was empty and her IV bag was draped over the railing.

At home, the pain and bleeding wouldn’t let up, prompting Watts to briefly return to the hospital the next day, but she again left against medical advice after not being able to see her OB/GYN soon enough.