That’s what it took to get to the fetus and remove it. And they’re blaming her for not doing it. There she was with a partially retained placenta, in danger of bleeding out, and she had the nerve to leave her toilet intact in order to obtain timely life saving health care.

And don’t forget, she’d been to the hospital multiple times and left because she wasn’t receiving care…all hospital caregivers and ‘legal teams’ were too busy trying to figure out if they could legally remove a dead fetus; they wouldn’t do what needed to be done. Just left her sitting there while they argued intent of the law versus letter of the law.

“She put the fetus into the toilet.” No, she didn’t. The fetus was expelled into the toilet, along with bodily waste. She tried to get everything out, but she couldn’t.

“She then went about her day.” No, she didn’t. She went to the hospital. She was bleeding (probably heavily) due to part of the placenta being left attached.

That’s just two of the twisted statements the prosecutor has made in order to make this woman look like a heartless SOB.

It’s gone too far, and short of removing Republicans from office and justices from the court, I don’t know what we can do. They are prosecuting this woman to punish her for miscarrying in an inconvenient place.

It’s worth mentioning that just 11 days earlier, had her miscarriage happened at the hospital, it would have been disposed of as medical waste…incinerated. 11 freaking days, and the state is criminalizing her.

Facts. The people loudly freaking out at the Supreme Court were right all along. Innocent women will be punished during a traumatic experience that is more than punishment enough. The amount of shame for this and other consequences of Conservative legislation will need to be applied for generations. They have proven to be a lice or bedbug infestation and proper treatment is necessary.

I heard she did something a few years back that really upset Baby Jesus and made him cry! I’m certain God knows what he’s doing!!

These are the images the Democrats need to sear into the minds of all voters. This is pure 1984 dystopian bullshit.

Wait until they hear about what happens to nazis

Just look at the “life of the mother exceptions.” There was a recent case where the fetus was all but dead and the woman’s life was in danger. She actually wanted the child, but carrying it to term and delivering it could have killed her.

Seems like an ideal life of the mother situation, right? Except the doctors said she wasn’t close enough to death. So she sued in court to get the law overturned. She won the right to have an abortion, but then the AG threatened the hospitals/doctors. Then the Texas Supreme Court ruled that she was at risk of dying, but she wasn’t CLOSE ENOUGH to death to qualify. So basically she had to be actively dying to get an abortion and even then it might not be good enough.

It’s ridiculous.

Eh more shithole state in this example but… yeah

america is the earth’s toilet, it’s all shit down there

We need to reinvent the angry mob for rescuing people from the police instead of lynching them

There was a well publicized case where a raped 10 year old in Ohio had to leave the state for an abortion. Of course she would not seek an abortion, it was well documented they were not available in Ohio.

How do you know she refused treatment? It sounds like she wanted treatment and wasn’t given it.

You keep repeating this on multiple related posts, without sources, when every single account I have read says she was in and out of the hospital miscarrying before she finally did at home, and then went back to the hospital afterward, where she was inpatient for days. She left the hospital because she wasn’t getting any help; they were all stuck on the new law while her body was unable to expel the fetus quickly. They did NOT offer her any abortion or assistance with moving the miscarriage along at all, which is why she kept going home AMA.

December 15
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/15/ohio-woman-miscarriage-abuse-of-corpse-grand-jury/
Archive link: https://archive.is/2rSiE

December 16
https://apnews.com/article/ohio-miscarriage-prosecution-brittany-watts-b8090abfb5994b8a23457b80cf3f27ce

December 19
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/us/brittany-watts-miscarriage-criminal-charge/index.html

From WaPo, linked above:

Brittany Watts was still hooked to an IV, sick for almost a week from a potentially fatal miscarriage, when a detective from the Warren Police Department in Ohio stepped into her hospital room. He assured her that she wasn’t in any trouble.

For more than an hour, Detective Nick Carney interviewed Watts, 33, about the details of that morning and the whereabouts of the nearly 22-week-old fetus that was declared nonviable two days earlier. As Watts described miscarrying in her bathroom, a nurse at Mercy Health — St. Joseph Warren Hospital rubbed her shoulders and told her everything would be okay, Watts told The Washington Post in a series of text messages. Two weeks later, Carney arrested Watts on charges of felony abuse of a corpse for how she handled the remains from her pregnancy. If indicted and found guilty, she faces up to a year in prison along with a fine of up to $2,500, her lawyer said.

To describe Watts’s experience, The Washington Post reviewed police reports, call recordings and more than 600 pages of medical records, interviewed her lawyer, and spoke to Watts via text message. (emphasis mine)

Again, you don’t need to make anything up. If you find yourself having to lie, maybe your point is not as worthy as you think it is.

Maybe if health care wasn’t hidden behind a pay wall and maybe if health care in America didn’t have a history of abusing minority women. And any treatment she received wouldnt have saved the fetus. Also, she was afraid any treatment would have resulted in her being imprisoned anyways. Abortion bans make an already complicated situation like pregnancy even more complicated for no reason. Maybe you should read up on this situation.

You are so willfully ignorant it hurts me.

In America, people of color are poorly treated by police, the justice system, and the healthcare system. It is important to point out examples of this when we see it, because our system usually starts treating marginalized groups unfairly as a test to see how badly they can treat everyone.

It is very common for police to look for chargabe offenses they pin on a Black person, but not so much for white people. Once there are charges, prosecutors typically focus on conviction at all costs, especially for Black defendants.

Here we have the trifecta: a Black woman has a miscarriage and call for help, and the police show up and immediately look for reasons to arrest her. While she’s recovering from a miscarriage, she’s hit with charges of abusing a corpse because she had the audacity to miscarry in a toilet. Now she’s facing felony charges related to a miscarriage in a state that has passed such draconian anti-abortion laws that even miscarrying could lead to murder charges.

So we absolutely have to say exactly what is happening, because if we don’t, this woman and countless others will end up locked in cages with their rights stripped away from them for daring to exist in a way that didn’t satisfy the white supremacist / christofacist factions in this country.

Black women face unique discrimination at the hands of the justice system. Not just in America, either. Canada and the UK (among many other nations) both have institutions of systemic injustice towards women of color.