I lost my first baby at 8 weeks in a hospital toilet. I was devastated. I wanted that baby so badly.. I had no control over what happened. To think that I could have been prosecuted legally while going through the loss of my child and enduring a D and C for my own health is abominable. This is cruelty against women. I can’t believe it’s happening in my country in 2023.
This poor woman is being subjected to awful prosecution and legislation, not to mention an invasion of privacy. She needs to sue the legislators who created this nightmare for her.
Legislators are protected via immunity so long as the officials are acting within the scope of their legal official duties. Santos was expelled from Congress, and he was in plea negotiations earlier in Dec. 2023 with Federal prosecutors.
@@seanyoung9014 AND? The applicable measure can only be RIGHT or WRONG. What would you say, for example, to a war mass murderer who killed bejond cruelty? Do you say, that's unbelievable, in another country, out of our influence, bejond scale....so we do NOTHING.
You'd probably have better luck suing Trump for installing Supreme Court Justices that are not nonpartisan as they should be. (That went on to overturn Roe v. Wade.)
That nurse is pure evil. She told that woman everything would be OK and rubbed her back after she lost the baby and then CALLS THE POLICE?! How could you see that woman grieving and think "she should suffer more. I know, let's put her in prison for losing her baby"
Either: A) the "nurse" is an anti-abortion spy B) she's been groomed by the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party to turn in human beings (if the head of the party is dead, leaving the nurse to scold; if not, we scold the party and give the nurse the benefit of the doubt; opinions on B?)
@@simplysarah0310 1) Colorism and xenophobia are a thing. 2) "Racism" in this case includes more than just skin color, it can include class, religion, and any issue that derives from medial bias and social bias.
The nurse has an ethical and moral obligation to all humans. Did she really need to plunge the toilet after the baby fell into it.. supposedly? She reported the issue not the lady.
Women of reproductive age and especially pregnant women are smart if they avoid states like: Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Ohio etc. If something happens, you will not get adequate care. I feel sorry for the women sho are stuck in those states.
@@blackandwhite3482 if flushing a miscarriage is a crime you'd better start arresting an ungodly number of women. Miscarriage in pregnancy is about as likely as a bear year in the stock market. And they usually happen on the toilet. Religious fundamentalists sure love to find new and exciting ways to discourage reproduction. Get punished for bad luck
@@tipper6733 spending do much time and energy to make people think bad about another person that went through something traumatic is seriously nasty. Telling lies about how it "really happened" makes it even worse. If it wasn't your baby and you haven't been there, mind your own business. You sound like a grumpy, lonely single man...
This is not just adding insult to injury, this is adding grievous harm to injury. Let's be clear: any woman (even foreign ones) who happens to be pregnant, should think long and hard about staying in or even travelling through any US state that has anti-abortion laws on the books. Because if you have any problem with your pregnancy while there, you will find yourself at the 'mercy' of people who basically want to see you suffer for being a woman.
Her fault for living in Ohio... They allow, Gym Jordan to represent them. Why, does she live in a state, that sends known traitors to represent them? Put her under the jail, just for trying to make babies in that treasonous hellscape.
Get real the Republicans are a gift to illegal immigrants that come here just to give birth and get welfare and other benefits/ Birthright citizenship is what's driving the massive illegal border crossings.
@@ThoseThingsSilver This woman had NO RIGHT to end the life of a Christian soldier. We must jail these women until liberal's WAKE UP and learn to OBEY TRUMP.
It did happen to me. I was alone at home, told by my doc it would probably happen. Same. Exact. Thing. However I buried the curly fetus under a rose bush. I didn’t t know what else to do.
She most definitely SHOULD. I was questioning why the attorneys hadn't in the video for negligence because had the hospital acted the last two days she was IN the hospital the staff may have been able to SAVE the baby. Negligence lawsuit.
Canadian here, this story is so beyond disgusting and reprehensible it boggles my mind. There is absolutely zero rational reason she should be prosecuted like this. Your country is falling backwards faster than ever with these draconian practices. I don't know how any woman can realistically live a normal life in your country anymore. Absolutely horrible.
@Iquey oh and even if your in a blue state , I'd still be careful , I watched the full story of a lady that nearly died of an ectopic pregnancy because they couldn't see the fetus for several months and luckily she made it but even blue states you have to be wary of because they still have strict laws on abortion clinics to keep them open and most hospitals send the patients because they don't perform them .. and it can be hard to find one and with most having to travel the red states are trying to have them shut down , their not just persecuting doctors from red states but blue ones as well . Their going for a total abortion ban
@@Iquey if you are Gen Z I wouldn’t even bother. I can’t believe how terrible young guys are. I am an elder millennial with a Gen X husband and feel I escaped on the last helicopter out of Nam
This is unbelievable! I had a miscarriage between my girls and was alone when it happened in the middle of night. I was in a lot of pain and miscarried in the toilet at maybe ten weeks along. I can’t imagine being charged with a crime!!! One out of three pregnancies end up in a miscarriage and I know a lot of women don’t discuss it only with their DOCTOR!
I'm sorry you had to go through that. I also miscarried. It was my 1st pregnancy. It seems all the women in my family miscarry their 1st. It started at my parents home after dinner. The first sign something was wrong, where did I go? The bathroom. They got me to the hospital in time, but my miscarriage still ended up in the toilet at the hospital. But that was back when women weren't prosecuted over a bodily functions.
A miscarriage is a horrible thing, but it's usually our bodies telling us that something is just dreadfully wrong. No one knows how they might react when and if it happens to them. No one has a plan for what to do if the unthinkable does occur. Leave this woman alone!
I read she reported to the nurse that she left the fetus outside her house in a bucket. Not that it changes much but it is context.❤ Edit I read more. Investigators found the remains wedged in a pipe😢. Very sad. Why would the nurse report something different?
@@DebNKYand honestly, sometimes, nothing is specifically found to have “gone wrong”, in the sense that it was not avoidable, it’s not something we fully understand why some happen. Sometimes there never is a solid answer, and the woman should never be blamed. The blaming has huge “it’s your fault you haven’t given me a male heir” vibes.
My mother had multiple miscarriages, many years ago. Her babies had been too small to even see what their genders were. In those days, she had her miscarriages at home, and so she was on the toilet each time. Where else would a woman be who was bleeding profusely out of her privates in her home? And yes, sadly, those babies ended up being flushed. There was nothing else to be done in those days. She couldn't get them out of the toilet, that's for sure. And if she had, she would have been thought insane to have them retrieved from a toilet. Yes, this woman's 22 weeks is further than those were, but it's still the same point. In this case, she DID try to go to the hospital. She was told to wait and to just keep bleeding, until she went home where she could at least bleed in a toilet instead of in her pants. I've had a miscarriage also, and went to the hospital. They made me wait so long that I almost bled to death. The E.R. doctor's face went pale white when he saw all the blood on the table. I ended up needing a D&C to stop the bleeding and clear out the uterus. The hospital never buried my baby. They threw it out with the medical waste. Does that mean that the hospital was "abusing a corpse"? And if this woman had miscarried the baby at the hospital, would they have buried it, or thrown it out with the medical waste? This nurse in the story is such a hypocrite. UPDATE JAN.13th: The Judge has DECLINED to indict her, and she will not be charged.
You make a good point. The hospital probably would have thrown it out with the medical waste. In my country the law gives a clear guideline. Before 24 weeks you can decide for yourself what you want to do with it. After 24 weeks there is a duty to have it officially buried or cremated. But we don't punish the women who didn't follow this law. It's traumatic enough to miscarry so far along.
right around 50% of the ppl in this country that are eligible to vote? dont bother, after enough women are prosecuted like this one? maybe that'll change🤷♀
@lorilxn1597 I'm so very sorry. Mine was rather early in my being aware of my pregnancy, but it still hit me deeply. Another friend of mine had a similar situation, but hers was much further along than mine, and her baby had died in the womb. The pain never goes away, but it does get better. Try to find solace in the idea that everything happens for a reason. My mother had two miscarriages and I had one. We both had the weird experience of repeatedly having dreams before the miscarriages of little children playing, and the feeling that the children in our dreams were our children. Later, after the miscarriages, it felt like that was a sign that we would someday see those babies in heaven. I don't know if you're religious, but I hope you can take comfort in that image, and in the knowledge that you made the choice you had to make.
@@rvdb7363 "After 24 weeks there is a duty to have it officially buried or cremated" - I'm guessing that in your country, a burial or cremation does not cost the equivalent of several thousand USD like it does here in the U.S.
@@daisydukes8252she was trying to get her child out of the toilet, at that stage of pregnancy the child can be cremated or buried. She actually had a still birth.
@@Hardawayfits are you ok. “Is cremation a crime”? That question tells me you know Watts broke the law. How? You go take a body out the morgue, burn it and see what happens to you. The same thing Watts is in right now, fool!!!
This is an abomination. I had a miscarriage at about the same time in my first pregnancy. It was horrible enough without having the state persecute me.
True, is a abomination. A lot of womans are in jail because a miscarriange in prolife nations like El Salvador. In El Salvador miscarriange is punished as murder. And if the state don't want any problem, only need to label the woman as a "mara" supporter. This way she lost every legal and human rigth. This is the reality of El Salvador under the control of the prolife fascist dictatorship of Nayib Bukele.
sorry for your loss. 22 weeks is considered a stillbirth, not a miscarriage. they often offer cuddle cots and the parents get photos of the baby in outfits etc.
@@benjaminscott3025ok so I just looked it up to confirm and according to the CDC it’s 20 weeks or after where it’s considered a stillbirth but WHO says 28 weeks. Quite a large range there.
This. Makes. Me. So. Angry. I had a miscarriage and it is painful enough. If something happens to make it public, that's even worse. And if it happens while using the restroom... that's horrible and depressing. She deserves respect, support, and privacy.
@@winstonsmith502You have a male moniker, so it us a fair assumption that you do not have the biological ability to get pregnant and an equally fair assumption that your body has neither experienced periods, nor pregnancy, nor miscarriage, nor live birth. So maybe you are the one who knows nothing. 'Bro'
@@ldebrobanderActually this does happen, my mom told me that a long time ago one of her friends had a miscarriage while going to the bathroom and had a miscarriage, so in this day in age not only would she be prosecuted for the loss of her child a child she did want but also the grief of losing her child, get real, this is whole thing is sick.
Hardly surprising that women are now seriously considering sterilisation as the only means of retaining control over their lives. It is disgusting that this poor woman is being persecuted in this way. There is far more suffering going on behind closed doors, women who have the strength to face this kind of tragedy publically like Kate Cox are rare, the woman in this case has been forced into the spotlight. The cruelty of the republicans is nothing short of evil.
Vivian, if the polls are correct, this is what we have to look forward to. Immigration, inflation, the HUGH amount we are sending overseas, are issues many people are talking about. Some people cannot see the BIG picture.
@@ImissyoulouThis is NOT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S FAULT! It is Republicans that overturned Roe v Wade. Breaking news, lady. The economy is booming. And the polls predicted a red wave that NEVER HAPPENED.
@@ImissyoulouJust my two cents but I don't trust ANY poll. They've only recently started getting away from relying on calling _landlines,_ & no politically active person I've ever met (including myself of course) has ever been asked about anything. They may have some online possibilities they're working on, but I think they still rely heavily on someone picking up a landline call, even when they don't recognize the number. Know who does that the most? Boomers. Some Gen Xers. What I see with my own eyes tells me the polls are inaccurate & can't be relied upon.
@@LifeOfcachis Actually your response validates YOU are slow, sweetie! Watts is not on trial for having a miscarriage, and my comment was CLEAR about why she is on trial. Read before you @ folks!
after trump signs lindseys national abortion ban? this will seem like a parking ticket, soon? women in every state in this country will be prosecuted for abortions, bernie or bust got women bust🤷♀
This is horrific. Poor lady…I can’t even believe the police took this on. The nurse should be charged and fired for violating HIPAA rights. The lady needs to sue the nurse.
@@keshownaallen3599it is a fetus not a baby. That nurse needs to lose her license, let’s find out who she is and report her to the State of Ohio Board Of Nursing she has done harm and violated her oath.
@@keshownaallen3599Ma’am just no. You know nothing about healthcare compliance and the federal laws and regulations that were set by the OIG and CMS (you’ll more than likely Google those acronyms because you don’t know what they are) It’s sad reading how hard you tried. A hand dandy hospital handbook! That was funny. You made mine and my coworkers workday even better.
There is no law regulating how to dispose of the product of a miscarriage. How can there be a punishment attached to dealing with it, the best she could? Is this a threat to society? No. Let her heal from this loss without further legal trauma and humilliation!
In many red states a fertilized egg is considered a human. If they want to run with that to persecute women. Then every miscarriage is a corpse. Even if the body is microscopic. Corpses/dead people generally get death certificates, and frequently are inspected by medical examiners to determine cause of death. I always try to think of the worst things these red state leaders could do. Depending on the ME's findings, murder investigations could be started for every miscarriages
The "reason" is that the lawmakers consider the product of a miscarriage to be a person, which is a ridiculous assertion. And Joe, get out of here with that garbage. This was nothing which ANYONE should be charged with.
She's not a criminal. Miscarriages happen to women and it's beyond her control. That nurse who reported her should be the one who should be prosecuted because that is a HIPAA violation.
The most disgustingly barbaric story. How dare these vile people consciously inflict even further cruelty upon women who’ve already endured the unthinkable. How many Republicans have had miscarriages or required abortions for medical purposes?! This is unconscionable brutality! Makes my bloody boil
@@Apollo_Blaze sadly can’t. I’m Australian but hopefully this horrifically cruel abuse of power over a woman’s body will encourage others to vote blue.
@Sexychildren No, it's not. Thousands of pregnancies end every year even if they're wanted because pregnancy doesn't go right. A woman whose water breaks before 22-24 weeks is almost certainly going to lose the pregnancy, and may die herself because of it. The baby cannot survive before then. The only murderers here are people like you who condemn women to death when their pregnancies go wrong.
@Sexychildren oh dear god, you truly believe that a miscarriage is a living foetus. Do the world a favour and get an education. You’re making a fool of yourself.
This is heartbreaking; as a 30yr old black woman my heart is breaking for her. Why can't we stop this and do something? As someone that's never had a pregnancy I'm terrified to even try to get pregnant because of this now. I'd just rather not even have children if I'll be prosecuted for something that naturally happens in pregnancy. This is despicable.
That's what these laws have done. Women are afraid to get pregnant now. Because if things don't go as planned, they will be left to fend for themselves, likely die or be arrested. Pregnancy is still risky, even with all our advances in medicine. Wth is wrong with these politicians and this country!!!??
@@michelles1250if you're in a Red state, except the two red states that did the fair thing and allowed citizens to vote on it, you're healthcare won't make any difference. They will let you die. And if you miscarry, they will throw that azz in jail. Remember this at voting time!
My heart breaks for her! She's lost two babies. She went to the hospital for help before the second miscarriage. She wanted her baby and wanted the best for it. She may lose everything because she had a miscarriage and lives in a red state. If her story doesn't make women think twice about getting pregnant or having relations, I don't know what does! The unnecessary pain, trauma, and expense she's being put through!
you mean: "If her story doesn't make women think twice about getting pregnant or having relations WHILE BEING BLACK IN A RED STATE.!!!!" .... right????
@@pipermccool I think you're right and this will not help the Republicans for the presidential election. What they do this woman is backward to say it diplomatically. Would never happen here in Europe or any other country considered as developed
She's a mandatory reporter. She has to report anything abortion and abortion adjacent that she knows or reasonably suspects just like child abuse else she faces those very consequences, and probably more under these psychotic regimes.
This could have been me. This happened to me while out running errands and I didn’t even know I was pregnant. My world came to a complete stop while I tried to wrap my head around what had just happened in a public bathroom. I’m starting to think that shutting down our wombs and allowing the population to drop is the loudest way to protect our physical and mental health and be heard.
I feel terrible for these women for what they are going through. I, too, had experienced two miscarriages when I was 28 years old. I was so traumatized because I wanted to have my babies. My babies died inside of me, and I couldn't accept that they were dead, so I asked for a second opinion, and sure enough, they were dead inside my womb. I still miss my babies to this day. I can only imagine how terrible these women must be feeling having to go through the court process.
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist. I didn't have an abortion to get rid of my pregnancies? Hello? Do you people not understand anything that I wrote in my post? You sure have no understanding about what I wrote. I have repented from all of my sins many years ago? I didn't get any abortion procedures to murder. My babies were already dead inside my womb. Hello? Did you not understand that part. I am a Christian. I am not guilty of anything because I did not murder any of my babies. My mother was there and she witnessed what happened to me and saw that I did not commit any murderers but my babies were already dead inside my womb. Get it in your head once in for all.
I lost three babies to miscarriage, and it saddened me deeply at the time, but later I had three children who survived. I know that the three I lost will be resurrected one day, and even before I came to believe that, I went on with my life without carrying around prolonged grief over those miscarriages. I know we all have different emotional reactions and I do not lack empathy. I have a strong motherly instinct even at 69 years old. I am sorry for this woman who posted that she still grieves 40 years later, but I think counseling might help her with her excessive grief. 🫠
This is disgusting. So many women suffer miscarriages (me included). It’s painful, emotionally and physically. How dare they not treat her. Beyond belief. If we lose democracy, we lose this fight and I REFUSE to let this go. Mobilize. This is medieval!
It’s the exact opposite. They told her more than once to not leave the hospital. They were going to induce her so she could safely miscarry. They knew it was going to happen. She went to the hospital I believe 3 times before she actually miscarried and each time she left against doctors advice. There’s a reason that hospitals advise patients not to leave. You can die from a miscarriage. Had she not done that multiple times she would not be going through this. I am not saying if it’s right or wrong, but she did not care about herself even. She herself stated she didn’t want her mom to find out she was pregnant, even though she’s a grown adult.
@@melindablunk613 You are making many assumptions about Brittany Watts…you are assuming things about her personal life, her thinking, and what happened during those hospital visits. Have you ever had a miscarriage? Sometimes you are sent home to miscarry. Keep in mind that a wanted pregnancy that is being lost can put you into a depressive head spin. Women like this don’t necessarily react the way we think they should act. People grieve in so many different ways. And not every doctor and nurse makes you feel comfortable. People leave hospitals and doctors offices because they don’t feel comfortable with how they are being treated. Black women are often treated badly by the medical establishment. The nurse that reported her to the police was rubbing her shoulders and telling her everything would be okay. Maybe Miss Watts didn’t trust her and left. We don’t know. I had a miscarriage and the doctor told me to schedule a D&C procedure and I left the office without scheduling and in shock. The doctor treated me coldly and harshly and I wanted nothing to do with her. I got a second opinion from another doctor and she was kind to me. She gave me a choice of a procedure or go home and I went home. Stop saying she did not care about herself. You don’t know that. Your comments throughout this channel have a very accusatory tone and attitude. It’s incredibly sad to see a fellow female being so unsupportive and mean-spirited.
@@melindablunk613 how do u know if she “did not care about herself even”? U don’t know that. There’s a lot u don’t know. Why aren’t u questioning how she is being treated? Not looking so good here, Melinda.
ALTHOUGH I'M 63, EVERY TIME I GET ON YT, I'M MOBILIZING PEOPLE TO GET OUT AND VOTE BLUE/DEMOCRAT!!! I'M BORN IN AN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, AND I'LL DIE IN ONE, TOO!!!! VOTE BLUE/DEMOCRAT 2024!!! BIDEN-HARRIS 2024!!!
This is VERY SAD!!!! If you loss a CHILD like this. Your already torn between the thoughts in your head. Thinking, maybe I could have done this or that. Just beating your own self up about the heartbreak of it. 💔💔💔
problem is that in reality, the red voters see jury duty as as duty & attend, while the blue voters see it as something to try to get out of, so chances are it will be a jury of red votes
If you do that you also have to say that you are unbiased and that you will apply the law as it is written. Remember that if you tell them you are against the law and how you are going to vote they will likely exclude you from the jury.
Great idea except extreme conservative christians also end up on juries and if they are "pro Life" they'll find her guilty. They vote too so please vote for pro choice candidates!
This is monsterous. Shame on that nurse, shame on that DA and shame on the police!!! Women in this country are under attack and it is only getting worse. My heart breaks for this young woman. I just cannot understand the hatred and lack of compassion women who are pregnant are being shown but I know it is rooted in religion, patriarchy and mysogeny. Women deserve so much better, esp in the land of the "free". I had an abortion at about 20 weeks. There is no way I can imagine having to go through what this young lady is going through. This is malicious prosecution and when she is exonerated I hope she sues everyone involved bc they even said there was no law or duty to report!! And it is 100% true that miscarriages happen in toilets often. What was she supposed to do? It is dead, not fully formed and bleeding out and in pain and shock...it is a massive trauma. So are you supposed to go fish out this blob and then....what?! Call a coroner? Comeon ppl, it is a common biological process and at that point it is a biohazard so flushing it seems logical to me. Jeez, pretty soon menstruating will be a crime
I can't remember which lawmaker it was who shared her personal horrific experiences of her own miscarriages (I think a total of three) that caused her to then have to have what was medically defined as an abortion, then asked her Republican colleagues "After which of these should I have been arrested?" Of course they all acted indignant, as though, naturally an exception would have been made for that kind of situation, and that she was just being dramatic and overly emotional. Here we are, just a few years later, literally deciding whether or not a miscarriage (or its aftermath) is punishable by law.
My mom had to flush one of her miscarriages. I remember her crying the whole day. This case is disgusting and insulting. It needs to be thrown out and the government needs to stop policing women’s bodies.
I don't recall in the book "What to expect when you're expecting" what are you supposed to do with a failed pregnancy? Was a chapter missing? Are we now supposed to bring it to a lawmaker? What exactly are we suppose to do with it? I had miscarriage of a very wanted baby at 11weeks. I went to the doctor and had an ultrasound which showed there was just a membrane in the egg sack. There weren't any organs or body parts. It came away in the middle of the night & the egg sack was the size of a nerf ball. I tore it open and the ultrasound was right ; just a little membrane. And I hit the handle and flushed. No one has the answer as to what one should do with the product of a failed pregnancy. The doctors don't want it. Same with a hospital. These ignorant men need to stay in their own lane.
I don't know if that was hard to share but... I am certain going through that was unbelievably difficult for you. I am trying to keep up with political news but stories like these do make it difficult to click on them because so many women want to keep the baby.
"These ignorant men need to stay in their own lane" - All of you women who say such unbelievably ignorant things need to stop trying to make this into a gender war. There are a huge number of us men who are right there with you, despite the fact that we don't experience this ourselves. On the other side, there are a huge number of women who are supporting this anti-abortion/pro-forced-birth legislation. This is NOT an issue that is split along gender lines, so stop pretending it is.
@@nomore6167 She didn't say "ALL men are ignorant" she wrote, "THESE ignorant men...referring to the men who are trying to use the government and right wing judiciary to control women's bodies. Thanks for not being an idjit, I guess.
@@transformationtimenow3321 "...referring to the men who are trying to use the government and right wing judiciary to control women's bodies." - Then I guess she conveniently ignored the fact that there are tons of women who are fighting alongside those ignorant men. Either that, or she's perfectly fine with those women trying to control her body.
My heart breaks for this poor woman. Ohio is DISGUSTING and the people wanting to prosecute clearly have mental deficiencies. They better drop this this cruel case. And I hope she sues the crap out of them! I'm starting to hate my own country. It's becoming clearly evil. How is this my home...and as a woman I am beyond angry.
Imagine if we decided life started at the sperm cell and forced all men to get a vasectomy at a young age that would only be reversed by a court that has decided that a family is fit for a child?
Been saying this ever since the overturning of Roe VS Wade... Men have no problem telling women what they should do with their bodies and genitals. But would NEVER accept laws being made around men's bodies. Hypocrisy
Or if a woman can get in this much trouble for being pregnant, how about the assist they got, I mean shouldn’t the guy be in there as an accomplice? Although maybe I shouldn’t even say that because they will be next as lawyers look around at who they can exploit next in this insane saga, especially as they put financial bounties out there for these people.
"...that would only be reversed by a court that has decided that a family is fit for a child?" - I've been saying for over 20 years that that's the way it should be. There should be mandatory reversible "sterilization" at or near birth that can be reversed only when the person shows they can be a responsible parent. The reason I started believing that is because of all the child abuse, neglect, etc, that has plagued the U.S. for decades.
@Creoles.nature i have a hard time understanding it myself because most of the nurses I've met are so compassionate and supportive. But, like any group of people, there are going to be awful garbage people among them. There's even been a few serial killer nurses.
One poster said; "What else will they take away?" The answer is...Everything! Including your right to vote and change the law. It's shocking that any woman/human can vote for Trump. He's proud of taking away your rights.
"Including your right to vote and change the law" - In the United States, voting is NOT a right, it is a privilege. Those is power are outright lying when they say we have the right to vote. A right is something that cannot be taken away. Voting privileges ARE taken away from people when they are convicted of a crime (and voting privileges are frequently NOT restored after the person has completed their court-ordered sentence. Do not buy into the BS that voting is a right. It should be, but it isn't.
I had to listen twice to get it. She's being prosecuted for a miscarriage? And her attending nurse reported it! Are we not allowed the same rights as men anymore? This is beyond appalling, that a nurse would take it upon herself to humiliate another woman like this is incomprehensible to me. How can someone have criminal intent over a bodily function? What is happening in this country? They are stripping our personal rights away as citizens on a daily basis. What's next?! God help us all.
My husband and I had several miscarriages during the first 5 years of our marriage before we had to stop trying due to additional medical issues that later developed. It was no longer safe for me. It was devastating each and every time. I can’t imagine being held legally accountable for my body simply not being able to carry to term. This is disgusting, heartless and inhumane. The worst of human behavior I have ever heard of. I’m also African American and my heart breaks to know our country still holds women in such little regard, for such an awful experience as having a miscarriage of a wanted pregnancy simply because our body couldn’t carry to term. How evil.
She is legally accountable for trying to plunge her dead baby down the municipal septic system, not for not being able to carry her pregnancy to term. Is it not clear to you? As a former PICU and NICU nurse I can assure you that a 22 week gestation baby comes out in one piece and it is a completely formed tiny human body. It is not “fetal remains” as perhaps it could be called under 12 weeks of gestation. A 22 week old fetus probably weighs 300 to 500 grams and looks like a tiny human. What kind of mother would flush her dead baby down the toilet? Women have stillborn premature of full term babies every day. Do they leave them at the hospital? Never seen anything like that in my 20 year pediatric nurse career. A normal person will take the body home for a proper burial of cremation, for a proper remembrance ceremony. What is truly disgusting, heartless, and inhumane is trying to push the body of your own dead child down the toilet with a plunger. I can’t even imagine how deranged that 33 yo woman is. Maybe she should claim insanity to get herself a deal of some sort.
"The situation unravelled on 22 September, when Ms Watts returned to the hospital and told healthcare providers that she had miscarried into a toilet and then used a plunger to flush. Upon her return to Mercy Health, a nurse alerted police to the end of her pregnancy. Investigators searched Ms Watts’ home and found the 22-week-old foetus wedged in the toilet’s pipes." Do you intend to flush your miscarried child down the toilet too?
I thought Ohio voted to pass abortion rights? I remember the R's tried to fight it, then they tried to word it in such a confusing way that people might accidentally vote against it. But it passed. What happened to that? Anyone else wonder if this would be different if the woman was white?
As someone who lost 3 babies before i had my daughter, this breaks my heart. She is grieving! This woman lost a child, whether it was born and breathing or not! Miscarriage feels like it rips ur soul out. She should be handled with care and given time and tenderness. Not sitting in a courtroom being charged for the very thing that probably destroyed her. This country is shameful!
I had my miscarriage in the hospital while sitting on the toilet. They asked me if I wanted to see my baby but even though I knew I would wish at a later time I would be wishing I had I couldn't bring myself at that moment to say yes. I needed time to process. Until you go through this yourself you have no right to say what is the right response to such a tragic occurrence
I’m sorry you experienced that. It’s more common than any old religious white dude can imagine. I read after my miscarriage that it was in the 20% category, not super common but still not rare. I felt both relieved (that maybe it wasn’t my fault), and also a little at a loss because my fundie Baptist upbringing never mentioned how so many pregnancies end involuntarily, long before viability.
when this story first broke, i thought it had been reported by a startled plumber or smth. that a nurse comforting her through the tragedy went and did it is absolutely shocking and disgusting.
Persecute: to treat (someone) cruelly or unfairly especially because of race or religious or political beliefs. Prosecute: means to pursue, carry out, or bring a lawsuit against a person or group.
I can only speak as a 68yo, white Australian male; but I find this whole story and all the other appalling things being done to so many women in the US just totally upsetting and inconceivable in a modern western democracy. I know there is discrimination and cases of injustice that occur in Australia, particularly for marginalised and disempowered women in our society, but at least we have a political and judicial system that wouldn’t allow this type of abuse to occur in the first place. Abortion in Australia has largely been decriminalised. At least, as I understand it, and according to Marie Stopes International Australia, Australia is on track to have universal care for women in this situation by 2030. Which century could this occur in the US?
We thought we had such a system, too, before Trump was allowed to become elected President. Since then, it’s become increasingly clear just how fragile that system actually is/was, and what actually held it together. It is not a thing unto itself. It is a manifestation of the collective will of the portion of the people who are willing to do what is required to make it so. Take our lesson and learn it.
@@erstwhile3793it started with the language. The obfuscation of language and its misogynistic take over, left women/females, vulnerable to all types of government over reach, as the govt doesn’t honor a definition of woman.
This girl was already in the hospital tal and chose to lock herself in the bathroom to dispose of her child because she didn’t want ant it to be born alive. She then disposed of the baby in the garbage and tried to clean up the blood to cover up her crime!!!😱
@@logicrealitytruthThat’s not even close to what happened. 1) The future child was very much wanted. 2) The fetus was no longer viable, confirmed by her dr. Why would you lie about such a devastating tragedy, that’s now resulted in legal harassment on top of that? I’m gonna guess you’ve never personally experienced a miscarriage. Otherwise you’d know how painful and shocking it is when you see that long awaited pregnancy end in such a banal, gruesome, and lonely way.
This is maddening. Do they now want to criminalize a complete natural occurence? About 1/3 of pregnancies end up in a spontenous abortion also called miscarriage. Mostly during the first three months. Many women even don't know they are pregnant but think they experience just a somewhat late heavy period. It is nature's way to deal with non-viable embryo's, saving the energy of the mother and clear the way for a viable pregnancy. There are many causes for a miscarriage: too many or not enough chromosomes, a genetic disease, immune problems of mother, serious developmental deviations, underdeveloped placenta, hormonal problems. What do women do if they get cramps: they go to the toilet. What is nect perform a burial of your period blood because there could be an embryo in the blood? The treatment of this woman is disgusting and sickening.
@@deborahlawrence680 ppl dont want to talk about it but honestly its a disgusting process my pressure got so high I had to have EMTs co.e get me they pulled it out at the hospital and put it in a jar bout the size of a pickle jar the pregnancy happend at about 12 to 13 weeks ending 1st trimester to 2nd look like poo clots and a smashed bug 😢but if I was at home would have flushed it trulyI feel for anyone who have to experince this at any time also had a chemical such heavy heavy bleeding
@@Beginnerreadsthebible "It's not a HIPPA violation to report a suspected crime to police" - Sorry, but I'm not going to accept information about a topic from someone who can't even spell it, especially after they saw it spelled correctly in my original comment.
I am so sick of seeing these cases, they are heartbreaking. If this is how pregnant women are to be treated in America, I will never have children. Meanwhile, the older generation is complaining about the declining birth rate. Why do you guys think women in my generation don't feel safe giving birth in 2023?
@@idiotsinwhips I agree… This wasn’t a normal miscarriage. I’ve seen babies born at 22 weeks. Lots of which are born breathing and can survive for several hours
@@kmurray559 this video frames it as all that happened was she miscarried into a toilet, so misleading. Many of the articles paint quite a disturbing picture
@@idiotsinwhipsany normal person would want to hold their baby… Not flush him/her down the toilet. Problem is that she needs to be punished along with a lot of other girls. There was a vase where the girl Skylar burned and buried her baby in the backyard. Full Term and got off..
I've read Ohio's "abuse of a corpse" law is part of a law against grave robbing. A prosecutorial reach, if so. "Corpse" isn't defined in the law, so it'll be a court fight whether it applies. Autopsy found the fetus died in utero, and fetal remains are treated differently from remains after a live birth in other Ohio laws.
Recent Ohio law says a fetus at 22 weeks + should be either buried or cremated. Maybe she didn't know that. It died before the miscarriage so it could have been at a younger gestational age. A fetus at that age is the size of a mango. The poor, traumatized woman was supposed to fish around the toilet bowl for it among the gore, umbilical and placenta. This prosecution is monstrous.
@@JJ-kl5yj "Recent Ohio law says a fetus at 22 weeks + should be either buried or cremated" - In other words, the State wants to financially traumatize someone (by forcing them to waste several thousand dollars) to go along with the emotional trauma they're experiencing.
@@JJ-kl5yjSo she'd also have to get it a death certificate to get it cremated, I assume home cremation would be treated the same... is she supposed to keep it in the freezer next to the chicken while waiting for a death certificate... It makes no sense at all... we're going backwards
You are building a country that I do not want to visit and a country that I hope my daughter has the good sense to avoid too. How you can demonize women for something that is natural (and devastating) is beyond me.
@@firewater365she has no right to do what she did after the miscarriage are you serious? She tried to FLUSH THE CHILD DONW THE TOILET THAN TRIED TO BURY IT IN THE BACK YARD IN A BUCKET ARE YOU LISTENING TO YOURSELF!
"The situation unravelled on 22 September, when Ms Watts returned to the hospital and told healthcare providers that she had miscarried into a toilet and then used a plunger to flush. Upon her return to Mercy Health, a nurse alerted police to the end of her pregnancy. Investigators searched Ms Watts’ home and found the 22-week-old fetus wedged in the toilet’s pipes." Glad to know you support forcing dead bodies down toilets with plungers.
How can she be charged with abuse of a corpse? A corpse belongs to a person. Did the person this corpse belonged to have a name, or a birth certificate, or a social security number? A fetus is not a person or a baby, it becomes those things when it is born.
This is exactly part of the strategy…. If the Evangelical Right can get a court to declare that this miscarried fetus WAS a “corpse”, then they have made another step into codifying that all fetuses, and eventually embryos, are a “person”. This is about a minority religious belief being forced upon a secular majority shaping the law to fit their beliefs and subjecting the rest of us to them. It is not scientific, it is a belief, just like some people believe the earth is flat. Do we allow them to make laws for the rest of us? There are many cultures here on earth that do not consider a born human to be a “person” until much later post-birth. In some cultures you are not a considered to have full personhood until a year after being born and there are a few cultures that do not consider you to have full personhood until your 7th birthday. Yes, these children are born, they are alive but their cultures allow for a longer time for the soul/spirit to fully inhabit the body and thus achieve personhood. My point is not to argue who is “right” but to point out that different cultures have different beliefs as to when we become a fully incarnated human being. Making LAWS around a certain set of beliefs and forcing those beliefs on others (who may not believe the same thing at all) is the real crime here.
It is a human at that stage and looks human etc., BUT if this miscarriage had happened at the hospital, the baby would have been pitched with the medical waste, and NOT buried in a casket. The nurse here is a hypocrite.
This is why I'm so grateful that I'm a member of Team Blue where all birthing people have access to free abortion clinics Vote blue to save our democracy. 💙💙
Birthing WOMEN and if you are against WOMEN you don’t have any business here. It is WOMEN that know, understand and hurt for what this WOMAN is going through.
Just to be safe, you should always call the cops when you have a heavy period. Make sure to hand over your underwear and maxi pads as evidence. If the cops won't take them, mail them to the DA's office.
Where are the consequences for the father of the child. If she's being charged, he should be charged for neglect of a child. I mean, if America is going to be unreasonable.
Is it possible that hospital staff and practices is a part of what caused this lady to miscarry at home, in the toilet instead of in the safety of a hospital? It appears that the nurse who comforted her and then called the police did that in order to shield the hospital from responsibility in this entire mess.
Of course, doctors and hospitals are afraid, because the overturning of roe has put them in danger as well. They have overturned a law with no rules or parameters. How arrogant are these men who legislate our bodies without the use of data and research, and without consulting with medical professionals. They’ve gone too far! This woman is merely the scapegoat and is being demonized for something well beyond her control.
Shielding a hospital over the live of a woman who did nothing wrong and suffered a terrible loss is unethical to a T. And to be consoling to then report is outright two-faced and abusive.
Exactly why did they let her go in the first place knowing the risk of passing a fetus that large. If she died then the hospital would be liable so why aren't they liable now? It's not like they gave her instructions on what to do if she passes the baby at home. Her lawyer sucks and this is another thing that needs to be looked at.
She was reported to the police because she left her hospital bed, locked herself in the bathroom so she could deliver and dispose of her baby in the garbage to ensure that it wasn’t born alive.
She was reported to the police because she left her hospital bed, locked herself in the bathroom so she could deliver and dispose of her baby in the garbage to ensure that it wasn’t born alive.
She was reported to the police because she left her hospital bed, locked herself in the bathroom so she could deliver and dispose of her baby in the garbage to ensure that it wasn’t born alive.
I have five daughters as well as a daughter-in-law, a wife, a mother (who's near a hundred years old), and a granddaughter, and in order to protect their rights from draconian laws being enacted that have a deleterious effect on them receiving quality health care, I shall never vote for a Republican candidate ever again in my life. However, that being said, the last time that I voted for a Republican candidate was in 1972 in a local election in Chicago. ...
The last time a Republican won Chicago mayor was when the tommy gun was around. So no big loss. But it was funny to hear how the illegal immigrants are getting better treatment than the citizens. Funny how major companies are leaving as well. Keep voting blue and Chicago will look like Detroit. A decaying husk of a city. Love from Texas BTW enjoy Biden's and your mayor's gift.
@@BeginnerreadsthebibleThis is not a situation where she was bound to report anything mandatory. She decided to allow her own bias, morals and personal beliefs to determine her next move.
@@blakeusry124 Whether she acted alone or not, doesn't negate her own bias going into her feelings towards this situation and that goes for anyone who supported her decision to make the call.
Women... this is not your fault that you're facing this hellhole, but you have the power to change it. Many men will join you in this fight! (including me) You just have to vote for people who will protect your rights and not oppress you.
they are very quiet for those women who don't want kids and many men keep pressurising them to have them, even when unwanted. Many men just think women are baby making machines
@msk.7878 Absolutely! This is a bipartisan belief. It's clear that the majority of men and women in every state want abortion rights. We don't want the government to do what this prosecutor is doing to this woman. I'm a staunch supporter of abortion rights, and I lost my mind when Roe was overturned. I'm a refugee from Iran, and I know firsthand how an authoritarian government treats women who get abortions (they're killed). They treat you as less important than my sperm. To them, YOU dying trying to give birth is perfectly okay for them. My mother had to give birth to a baby that wasn't going to survive long after birth. The doctors told her this months earlier, and she had no choice but to carry him to term... then he died in my mom's arms.
@@martalli Ohio is an horrifically gerrymandered state. 50% of the state votes blue but Republicans managed to gerrymander the districts to snag 2/3rd of the Representatives.
This is so horrific. I lost twins at 22 weeks as well. I went into labor early and gratefully had them in the hospital, but it could have happened a lot quicker and could have been in this very same position. You cannot imagine the pain and grief that comes from losing a child, or children in my case, so far along. This woman's milk will come in. She will have no baby to feed. The cruelty of that alone is enough to break any woman. But to then be criminalized for her actions at such a devastating time is beyond comprehension.
But would you have attempted to flush your 22 week old twins down the toilet had you delivered at home? I’m not really for this woman being prosecuted, but I AM concerned about her mental/cognitive state that she felt that she could deliver her stillborn baby in the toilet and then… flush… A 22 week old fetus is VERY different than a miscarried one that typically happens before 10 weeks gestation…
@@TheBenitaAngelashe didn’t try to flush them she just miscarried in the toilet. Which happens more than you think because your bowls and bladder and womb as a woman are all intertwined. If she wasn’t aware that is what was happening at that time then it can easily happened it happened to me and I thought it was just a blood clot until I showed my obgyn. I was extremely early on so it didn’t look like anything to me really besides and unusually big blood clot. So should I be prosecuted as well then? Absolutely not. The whole flushing thing with her is alleged anyways I highly doubt she did that unless she was in a state of extreme grief and panic. However it’s pretty much impossible for her to have flushed without causing some internal harm to herself. She could not have flushed because the cord is still ATTACHED to her! And it’s really hard to cut it without special scissors as well. So I highly doubt she flushed it unless it was early on, like early early. They are just bullying a woman who lost her child and are trying to demonize her for it. I was actually called a m*rderer for having a miscarriage by degenerates who don’t understand how a woman’s body works, this has been happening to many women lately it’s getting worse and worse each day. The harassment, the doxxing all because of something we as women can not control. She went to the hospital multiple times for help they refused to help her which should be illegal, if she was able to pass the fetus safely in the hospital then none of this would have happened.
@@TheBenitaAngela this issue is a direct result of negligence on the hospitals end. If the medical staff knew she was having a miscarriage (still birth) then she should have never been discharged and if she was, instructions should have been given to her about what to do once she delivers the baby. They failed to do that so they should be held accountable not her. You can't expect any woman to know what to do in the situation unless they are trained nurse or physician. Most women that have miscarriages and are sent home flush the fetus away in the toiliet.. statistically this is just what women do when they have a miscarriage. If not then I would imagine the hospital would keep them and have them deliver the non viable fetus under their care. Why she was discharged knowing she was 22 weeks remains a mystery but the hospital staff are at fault. The nurse reporting her for delivering her child at home at 22 weeks and disposing of the body sounds like it was set up for her to fail. The nurse should be charged too for failing to care for this patient. Even as a physician something sounds off with this story. Patients are not normally discharged from the hospital if they are having a miscarriage after 20 weeks. If she died while giving birth to the fetus at 20+ weeks (which is a likely possible since the fetus is larger which poses more risk) the hospital and nurse who sent her home would indefinitely be held liable. Not sure why it's different now but we will see how this case unfolds.
The nurse that reported her should lose her license forever for violating hipaa. She should also be sued for the same.
Yes.
Absolutely! 💯 She did not follow her nursing practice act.
I would most definitely sue her for violating HIPPA.
Love how you people think you have a single clue what's going on 😂
@@shlomogreengoy Troll bot gonna be deleted.😁
I lost my first baby at 8 weeks in a hospital toilet. I was devastated. I wanted that baby so badly.. I had no control over what happened. To think that I could have been prosecuted legally while going through the loss of my child and enduring a D and C for my own health is abominable. This is cruelty against women. I can’t believe it’s happening in my country in 2023.
I don't think I could be strong enough to endure it, I think I would take myself out, it's too much 😥
you may not even be able to get a D&C though, in fear they will be charged for doing it, even when it's needed to save a woman's life or fertility
Oh my goodness....8 weeks and 22 weeks are not the same thing. 22 weeks is a fully formed (though still needing growth and developing) human.
@@tessbabcock8169but why does 8 weeks, 22weeks, or any amount of time matter if this lady or any woman suffers a miscarriage?
@@tessbabcock8169 It was a miscarriage of a non-viable pregnancy. What exactly is your point?
This poor woman is being subjected to awful prosecution and legislation, not to mention an invasion of privacy. She needs to sue the legislators who created this nightmare for her.
Very well said I agree 100%
Have you ever tried to sue a legislator? Be for real.
Legislators are protected via immunity so long as the officials are acting within the scope of their legal official duties. Santos was expelled from Congress, and he was in plea negotiations earlier in Dec. 2023 with Federal prosecutors.
@@seanyoung9014 AND? The applicable measure can only be RIGHT or WRONG.
What would you say, for example, to a war mass murderer who killed bejond cruelty?
Do you say, that's unbelievable, in another country, out of our influence, bejond scale....so we do NOTHING.
You'd probably have better luck suing Trump for installing Supreme Court Justices that are not nonpartisan as they should be. (That went on to overturn Roe v. Wade.)
That nurse is pure evil. She told that woman everything would be OK and rubbed her back after she lost the baby and then CALLS THE POLICE?! How could you see that woman grieving and think "she should suffer more. I know, let's put her in prison for losing her baby"
Either:
A) the "nurse" is an anti-abortion spy
B) she's been groomed by the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party to turn in human beings (if the head of the party is dead, leaving the nurse to scold; if not, we scold the party and give the nurse the benefit of the doubt; opinions on B?)
Medical racism
@@youtubeshadowbansme494How do u know the nurse wasn’t black?
@@simplysarah0310 1) Colorism and xenophobia are a thing. 2) "Racism" in this case includes more than just skin color, it can include class, religion, and any issue that derives from medial bias and social bias.
The nurse has an ethical and moral obligation to all humans. Did she really need to plunge the toilet after the baby fell into it.. supposedly? She reported the issue not the lady.
That nurse should be fired for violating her rights and privacy of her medical records. It's not her job to play God.
Yeah that nurse can be sued and loose her right to practice medicine
Agreed
There is no god, it's a made up being to control you and it obviously works.
She violated HIPPA laws
NO, IT'S NOT!!! VOTE BLUE/DEMOCRAT 2024!!! BIDEN-HARRIS 2024!!! TRUMP FOR PRISON 2025!!!
America was already sounding scary to live in with all the shootings, but this craziness just made it even worse.
Women of reproductive age and especially pregnant women are smart if they avoid states like: Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Ohio etc. If something happens, you will not get adequate care. I feel sorry for the women sho are stuck in those states.
So ok to attempt to dispose of a body? CLOWN!
Trust me it is
Thank god I live in a blue state. I vote blue and thank god I do.
@mindyschocolate don't count your lucky stars yet. A republican gets into office, they'll 100% impose a national ban.
I am a nurse and the nurse who did this should be charged with a HIPPA violation and lose her license for human cruelty!
You're exactly right, what gives her the right to tell the police about this poor woman's medical problem?!
Disgusting.
She reported a state mandated crime. That’s not going to work, whether you like it or not.
@@blackandwhite3482 there's no crime
@@blackandwhite3482 if flushing a miscarriage is a crime you'd better start arresting an ungodly number of women. Miscarriage in pregnancy is about as likely as a bear year in the stock market. And they usually happen on the toilet.
Religious fundamentalists sure love to find new and exciting ways to discourage reproduction. Get punished for bad luck
@@DustinCastaneda7 spoken like a true nut.
My heart is crying for this woman. She lost her baby and now they are trying to destroy her life over this.
You all are some not so bright people!!! That 33 yr old woman was old enough to KNOW how she handled that baby’s body was unacceptable.
@@tipper6733 spending do much time and energy to make people think bad about another person that went through something traumatic is seriously nasty.
Telling lies about how it "really happened" makes it even worse. If it wasn't your baby and you haven't been there, mind your own business.
You sound like a grumpy, lonely single man...
@@tipper6733 it's literally how hospitals dispose of miscarriages too tf are you talking about? You just hate women
This is not just adding insult to injury, this is adding grievous harm to injury.
Let's be clear: any woman (even foreign ones) who happens to be pregnant, should think long and hard about staying in or even travelling through any US state that has anti-abortion laws on the books. Because if you have any problem with your pregnancy while there, you will find yourself at the 'mercy' of people who basically want to see you suffer for being a woman.
Her fault for living in Ohio...
They allow, Gym Jordan to represent them.
Why, does she live in a state, that sends known traitors to represent them?
Put her under the jail, just for trying to make babies in that treasonous hellscape.
This is true. AVOID those states. The USA has become an incredibly dangerous place.
Hmm. Interesting. I don’t know all the details of our legal system. I wonder if perhaps she could have a lawsuit here?
More evidence these laws are about controlling and persecuting women.
Get real the Republicans are a gift to illegal immigrants that come here just to give birth and get welfare and other benefits/ Birthright citizenship is what's driving the massive illegal border crossings.
This is frightening. Having lost many pregnancies, this could have been me. This is horrific. I was devastated.
I was thinking the same thing about myself.
@@ThoseThingsSilver This woman had NO RIGHT to end the life of a Christian soldier. We must jail these women until liberal's WAKE UP and learn to OBEY TRUMP.
It did happen to me. I was alone at home, told by my doc it would probably happen. Same. Exact. Thing. However I buried the curly fetus under a rose bush. I didn’t t know what else to do.
Yes, it can and that's why Roe V Wade offered some protection.
@@ronaldnixon8226sure it’s January 6th somewhere.
Isn't this literally like "The Handmaid's Tale?" These Republicans are nothing short of SICKENING
Yep
I was too scared to read it. 😢
Absolutely which is why I am voting some of these clowns out of office.
That show is hard to watch because it can easily become reality. It's already starting.
In the end, I have 0 doubt that's what pro-forced birthers and Christo facists want.
She should sue that hospital and all staff who were involved.
She most definitely SHOULD. I was questioning why the attorneys hadn't in the video for negligence because had the hospital acted the last two days she was IN the hospital the staff may have been able to SAVE the baby. Negligence lawsuit.
Canadian here, this story is so beyond disgusting and reprehensible it boggles my mind. There is absolutely zero rational reason she should be prosecuted like this. Your country is falling backwards faster than ever with these draconian practices. I don't know how any woman can realistically live a normal life in your country anymore. Absolutely horrible.
Yet your country would immediate incorporated into Russia if the USA would cease to exist
Pray we don't have a life threatening sickness and never get pregnant
Even in a "safe" blue state I don't even think about dating anymore. Men aren't worth the risk. I live for money and spite and to help my friends.
@Iquey oh and even if your in a blue state , I'd still be careful , I watched the full story of a lady that nearly died of an ectopic pregnancy because they couldn't see the fetus for several months and luckily she made it but even blue states you have to be wary of because they still have strict laws on abortion clinics to keep them open and most hospitals send the patients because they don't perform them .. and it can be hard to find one and with most having to travel the red states are trying to have them shut down , their not just persecuting doctors from red states but blue ones as well . Their going for a total abortion ban
@@Iquey if you are Gen Z I wouldn’t even bother. I can’t believe how terrible young guys are. I am an elder millennial with a Gen X husband and feel I escaped on the last helicopter out of Nam
This is unbelievable! I had a miscarriage between my girls and was alone when it happened in the middle of night. I was in a lot of pain and miscarried in the toilet at maybe ten weeks along. I can’t imagine being charged with a crime!!! One out of
three pregnancies end up in a miscarriage and I know a lot of women don’t discuss it only with their DOCTOR!
I'm sorry you had to go through that. I also miscarried. It was my 1st pregnancy. It seems all the women in my family miscarry their 1st. It started at my parents home after dinner. The first sign something was wrong, where did I go? The bathroom. They got me to the hospital in time, but my miscarriage still ended up in the toilet at the hospital. But that was back when women weren't prosecuted over a bodily functions.
A miscarriage is a horrible thing, but it's usually our bodies telling us that something is just dreadfully wrong. No one knows how they might react when and if it happens to them. No one has a plan for what to do if the unthinkable does occur. Leave this woman alone!
I read she reported to the nurse that she left the fetus outside her house in a bucket. Not that it changes much but it is context.❤
Edit I read more. Investigators found the remains wedged in a pipe😢. Very sad. Why would the nurse report something different?
I’m so sorry you went through that, but thank you for speaking about it and giving voice to what women and girls go through day after day. ❤
@@DebNKYand honestly, sometimes, nothing is specifically found to have “gone wrong”, in the sense that it was not avoidable, it’s not something we fully understand why some happen. Sometimes there never is a solid answer, and the woman should never be blamed. The blaming has huge “it’s your fault you haven’t given me a male heir” vibes.
My mother had multiple miscarriages, many years ago. Her babies had been too small to even see what their genders were. In those days, she had her miscarriages at home, and so she was on the toilet each time.
Where else would a woman be who was bleeding profusely out of her privates in her home?
And yes, sadly, those babies ended up being flushed. There was nothing else to be done in those days. She couldn't get them out of the toilet, that's for sure. And if she had, she would have been thought insane to have them retrieved from a toilet.
Yes, this woman's 22 weeks is further than those were, but it's still the same point. In this case, she DID try to go to the hospital. She was told to wait and to just keep bleeding, until she went home where she could at least bleed in a toilet instead of in her pants.
I've had a miscarriage also, and went to the hospital. They made me wait so long that I almost bled to death. The E.R. doctor's face went pale white when he saw all the blood on the table. I ended up needing a D&C to stop the bleeding and clear out the uterus.
The hospital never buried my baby. They threw it out with the medical waste. Does that mean that the hospital was "abusing a corpse"?
And if this woman had miscarried the baby at the hospital, would they have buried it, or thrown it out with the medical waste?
This nurse in the story is such a hypocrite.
UPDATE JAN.13th: The Judge has DECLINED to indict her, and she will not be charged.
You make a good point. The hospital probably would have thrown it out with the medical waste.
In my country the law gives a clear guideline. Before 24 weeks you can decide for yourself what you want to do with it. After 24 weeks there is a duty to have it officially buried or cremated. But we don't punish the women who didn't follow this law. It's traumatic enough to miscarry so far along.
I had an emergency D & C at almost 7 months. Over 40 years ago and I'm still affected by it 😢
right around 50% of the ppl in this country that are eligible to vote? dont bother, after enough women are prosecuted like this one? maybe that'll change🤷♀
@lorilxn1597
I'm so very sorry.
Mine was rather early in my being aware of my pregnancy, but it still hit me deeply. Another friend of mine had a similar situation, but hers was much further along than mine, and her baby had died in the womb. The pain never goes away, but it does get better. Try to find solace in the idea that everything happens for a reason.
My mother had two miscarriages and I had one. We both had the weird experience of repeatedly having dreams before the miscarriages of little children playing, and the feeling that the children in our dreams were our children. Later, after the miscarriages, it felt like that was a sign that we would someday see those babies in heaven.
I don't know if you're religious, but I hope you can take comfort in that image, and in the knowledge that you made the choice you had to make.
@@rvdb7363 "After 24 weeks there is a duty to have it officially buried or cremated" - I'm guessing that in your country, a burial or cremation does not cost the equivalent of several thousand USD like it does here in the U.S.
This is the most disturbing thing I've ever seem. They want to punish her after losing her child. Just disgusting 😒 😕
After abuse of a corpse, you mean.
@@daisydukes8252 😂 So is cremation a crime?
@@daisydukes8252how is it abuse when she had miscarriage it fell in toilet.
@@daisydukes8252she was trying to get her child out of the toilet, at that stage of pregnancy the child can be cremated or buried. She actually had a still birth.
@@Hardawayfits are you ok. “Is cremation a crime”? That question tells me you know Watts broke the law. How? You go take a body out the morgue, burn it and see what happens to you. The same thing Watts is in right now, fool!!!
This is an abomination. I had a miscarriage at about the same time in my first pregnancy. It was horrible enough without having the state persecute me.
True, is a abomination. A lot of womans are in jail because a miscarriange in prolife nations like El Salvador. In El Salvador miscarriange is punished as murder. And if the state don't want any problem, only need to label the woman as a "mara" supporter. This way she lost every legal and human rigth. This is the reality of El Salvador under the control of the prolife fascist dictatorship of Nayib Bukele.
sorry for your loss. 22 weeks is considered a stillbirth, not a miscarriage. they often offer cuddle cots and the parents get photos of the baby in outfits etc.
You don't get prosecuted for having miscarriage. Stop listening to propaganda.
@@benjaminscott3025 wait what...pictures with dressed up dead babies?
@@benjaminscott3025ok so I just looked it up to confirm and according to the CDC it’s 20 weeks or after where it’s considered a stillbirth but WHO says 28 weeks. Quite a large range there.
This. Makes. Me. So. Angry.
I had a miscarriage and it is painful enough. If something happens to make it public, that's even worse. And if it happens while using the restroom... that's horrible and depressing. She deserves respect, support, and privacy.
I blame the Trump movment.
You do not flush something that large down a toilet, for goodness sake. You flush dead goldfish. Not a 5 1/2 month old miscarried fetus.
You know nothing, "bro".
@@winstonsmith502You have a male moniker, so it us a fair assumption that you do not have the biological ability to get pregnant and an equally fair assumption that your body has neither experienced periods, nor pregnancy, nor miscarriage, nor live birth. So maybe you are the one who knows nothing. 'Bro'
@@ldebrobanderActually this does happen, my mom told me that a long time ago one of her friends had a miscarriage while going to the bathroom and had a miscarriage, so in this day in age not only would she be prosecuted for the loss of her child a child she did want but also the grief of losing her child, get real, this is whole thing is sick.
Hardly surprising that women are now seriously considering sterilisation as the only means of retaining control over their lives.
It is disgusting that this poor woman is being persecuted in this way.
There is far more suffering going on behind closed doors, women who have the strength to face this kind of tragedy publically like Kate Cox are rare, the woman in this case has been forced into the spotlight.
The cruelty of the republicans is nothing short of evil.
Vivian, if the polls are correct, this is what we have to look forward to. Immigration, inflation, the HUGH amount we are sending overseas, are issues many people are talking about. Some people cannot see the BIG picture.
If it was only so easy to get sterilized as a woman.
@@ImissyoulouThis is NOT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S FAULT! It is Republicans that overturned Roe v Wade. Breaking news, lady. The economy is booming. And the polls predicted a red wave that NEVER HAPPENED.
@@ImissyoulouJust my two cents but I don't trust ANY poll. They've only recently started getting away from relying on calling _landlines,_ & no politically active person I've ever met (including myself of course) has ever been asked about anything.
They may have some online possibilities they're working on, but I think they still rely heavily on someone picking up a landline call, even when they don't recognize the number. Know who does that the most? Boomers. Some Gen Xers. What I see with my own eyes tells me the polls are inaccurate & can't be relied upon.
@@Imissyoulou give it another 6 months, people will see more cases like this and demand this to stop.
It is ridiculous to put any woman through such abuse! Unacceptable. 💙🇺🇸⚖️🦉
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No one put that woman thru abuse. What she did to that baby’s body was abuse.
@@tipper6733what did she do she had a miscarriage are you slow
@@LifeOfcachis Actually your response validates YOU are slow, sweetie! Watts is not on trial for having a miscarriage, and my comment was CLEAR about why she is on trial. Read before you @ folks!
@@LifeOfcachis You got real quiet! Must’ve went back and read that I wasn’t hardly talking about a miscarriage, Simple Simon
This upsets me so much. This woman has been through so much at no fault of her own and yet she's standing trail for what happen in the lady's room!
after trump signs lindseys national abortion ban? this will seem like a parking ticket, soon? women in every state in this country will be prosecuted for abortions, bernie or bust got women bust🤷♀
trial not trail*
If you're from the south, it's trail. It's called a southern drawl.@@nofybn7794
Vote Democratic 🇺🇲 This story is sickening.
@@politicsbtchIt's an abomination in our system of justice.
This is horrific. Poor lady…I can’t even believe the police took this on. The nurse should be charged and fired for violating HIPAA rights. The lady needs to sue the nurse.
If the nurse is following law/policy at the facility, there's nothing to sue for. It's not a HIPAA violation.
@@LulaMae21 4:26
@@keshownaallen3599it is a fetus not a baby. That nurse needs to lose her license, let’s find out who she is and report her to the State of Ohio Board Of Nursing she has done harm and violated her oath.
@@keshownaallen3599Ma’am just no. You know nothing about healthcare compliance and the federal laws and regulations that were set by the OIG and CMS (you’ll more than likely Google those acronyms because you don’t know what they are) It’s sad reading how hard you tried. A hand dandy hospital handbook! That was funny. You made mine and my coworkers workday even better.
She can report her to the board of nursing
There is no law regulating how to dispose of the product of a miscarriage. How can there be a punishment attached to dealing with it, the best she could? Is this a threat to society? No. Let her heal from this loss without further legal trauma and humilliation!
Well known fact amongst law enforcement, any American can be arrested any any given time on at least three chargeable felonies.
In many red states a fertilized egg is considered a human. If they want to run with that to persecute women. Then every miscarriage is a corpse.
Even if the body is microscopic. Corpses/dead people generally get death certificates, and frequently are inspected by medical examiners to determine cause of death.
I always try to think of the worst things these red state leaders could do.
Depending on the ME's findings, murder investigations could be started for every miscarriages
THANK YOU!!!
The "reason" is that the lawmakers consider the product of a miscarriage to be a person, which is a ridiculous assertion.
And Joe, get out of here with that garbage. This was nothing which ANYONE should be charged with.
@@HLBear show us where In the law do they say this? A miscarriage is not considered a person.. it's considered a non viable fetus.
She's not a criminal. Miscarriages happen to women and it's beyond her control. That nurse who reported her should be the one who should be prosecuted because that is a HIPAA violation.
If she flushed a body that makes her a criminal.
@@daisydukes8252no it doesnt
The most disgustingly barbaric story. How dare these vile people consciously inflict even further cruelty upon women who’ve already endured the unthinkable. How many Republicans have had miscarriages or required abortions for medical purposes?! This is unconscionable brutality! Makes my bloody boil
The GOP doesn't care because they are thinking about how to stay in power for as long as they can.
Be sure to Vote Blue!!!
@@Apollo_Blaze sadly can’t. I’m Australian but hopefully this horrifically cruel abuse of power over a woman’s body will encourage others to vote blue.
@Sexychildren No, it's not. Thousands of pregnancies end every year even if they're wanted because pregnancy doesn't go right. A woman whose water breaks before 22-24 weeks is almost certainly going to lose the pregnancy, and may die herself because of it. The baby cannot survive before then.
The only murderers here are people like you who condemn women to death when their pregnancies go wrong.
@Sexychildren oh dear god, you truly believe that a miscarriage is a living foetus. Do the world a favour and get an education. You’re making a fool of yourself.
This is heartbreaking; as a 30yr old black woman my heart is breaking for her. Why can't we stop this and do something? As someone that's never had a pregnancy I'm terrified to even try to get pregnant because of this now. I'd just rather not even have children if I'll be prosecuted for something that naturally happens in pregnancy. This is despicable.
Yeah. My fiancé and I want a family. But we are waiting until we know that I will get the Healthcare I need if the pregnancy goes south.
That's what these laws have done. Women are afraid to get pregnant now. Because if things don't go as planned, they will be left to fend for themselves, likely die or be arrested. Pregnancy is still risky, even with all our advances in medicine. Wth is wrong with these politicians and this country!!!??
@@michelles1250if you're in a Red state, except the two red states that did the fair thing and allowed citizens to vote on it, you're healthcare won't make any difference. They will let you die. And if you miscarry, they will throw that azz in jail. Remember this at voting time!
@@DustinCastaneda7and you’re remedial. Your point?
it is better not to have kids, it is cruel to have kids and bring them suffering and death. plenty of childfree by choice black women on youtube.
My heart breaks for her! She's lost two babies. She went to the hospital for help before the second miscarriage. She wanted her baby and wanted the best for it. She may lose everything because she had a miscarriage and lives in a red state. If her story doesn't make women think twice about getting pregnant or having relations, I don't know what does! The unnecessary pain, trauma, and expense she's being put through!
So what I'm hearing you say is it's her fault because she got prego
you mean: "If her story doesn't make women think twice about getting pregnant or having relations WHILE BEING BLACK IN A RED STATE.!!!!" .... right????
@@meatball1628 That is not what she said AT ALL.
What it does is make more women fight for abortion rights, thankfully.
@@pipermccool I think you're right and this will not help the Republicans for the presidential election. What they do this woman is backward to say it diplomatically. Would never happen here in Europe or any other country considered as developed
I feel awful for these women who had to go through a miscarriage. I can't imagine the way you are feeling 😢
This is horrible and unfair. I'm also upset with that nurse.
She should absolutely loser her medical license.
She's a mandatory reporter. She has to report anything abortion and abortion adjacent that she knows or reasonably suspects just like child abuse else she faces those very consequences, and probably more under these psychotic regimes.
It's not mandatory reporting on abortion
It’s medieval and it needs to stop. Stand up to these fascists.
It’s incredibly scary when politics weaponises the healing professions. Never, ever has this ended well.
This could have been me. This happened to me while out running errands and I didn’t even know I was pregnant. My world came to a complete stop while I tried to wrap my head around what had just happened in a public bathroom.
I’m starting to think that shutting down our wombs and allowing the population to drop is the loudest way to protect our physical and mental health and be heard.
Except the same men who pushed the vote also don’t mind forcing themselves onto women.
@@thecurator2626 well those same men protect 2A, which in turn can be used to protect yourself from them 😅
I don't want to live in the handmaid's tale
Exactly.
@@bishop51807 yet here we are
I feel terrible for these women for what they are going through.
I, too, had experienced two miscarriages when I was 28 years old. I was so traumatized because I wanted to have my babies. My babies died inside of me, and I couldn't accept that they were dead, so I asked for a second opinion, and sure enough, they were dead inside my womb.
I still miss my babies to this day.
I can only imagine how terrible these women must be feeling having to go through the court process.
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist.Adopt or foster a child in need already. Just one. Put up or shut up!
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist.
I didn't have an abortion to get rid of my pregnancies?
Hello?
Do you people not understand anything that I wrote in my post?
You sure have no understanding about what I wrote.
I have repented from all of my sins many years ago?
I didn't get any abortion procedures to murder.
My babies were already dead inside my womb. Hello?
Did you not understand that part.
I am a Christian.
I am not guilty of anything because I did not murder any of my babies.
My mother was there and she witnessed what happened to me and saw that I did not commit any murderers but my babies were already dead inside my womb. Get it in your head once in for all.
Feeling terrible is not helping... why are women sitting back and taking this?
You know nothing about this person or what they are doing. Go outside. @@polarbearsrus6980
@@ErikaRodriguez-x7u That religious account is just posting that on every thread :/
Imagine being prosecuted for having cancer.
I still hurt because of the baby I miscarried 40+ years ago, it happened on my birthday and I was quite far along. This is thoroughly disgusting 🤬
Wishing you much peace & healing 💗💗💗💗💗💗
So sorry for your loss.
I'm sorry for your loss. I know how you feel.😢💞
My birthday is similar. I am sorry for your loss
I lost three babies to miscarriage, and it saddened me deeply at the time, but later I had three children who survived. I know that the three I lost will be resurrected one day, and even before I came to believe that, I went on with my life without carrying around prolonged grief over those miscarriages. I know we all have different emotional reactions and I do not lack empathy. I have a strong motherly instinct even at 69 years old. I am sorry for this woman who posted that she still grieves 40 years later, but I think counseling might help her with her excessive grief. 🫠
This is disgusting. So many women suffer miscarriages (me included). It’s painful, emotionally and physically. How dare they not treat her. Beyond belief. If we lose democracy, we lose this fight and I REFUSE to let this go. Mobilize. This is medieval!
It’s the exact opposite. They told her more than once to not leave the hospital. They were going to induce her so she could safely miscarry. They knew it was going to happen. She went to the hospital I believe 3 times before she actually miscarried and each time she left against doctors advice. There’s a reason that hospitals advise patients not to leave. You can die from a miscarriage. Had she not done that multiple times she would not be going through this. I am not saying if it’s right or wrong, but she did not care about herself even. She herself stated she didn’t want her mom to find out she was pregnant, even though she’s a grown adult.
@@melindablunk613 You are making many assumptions about Brittany Watts…you are assuming things about her personal life, her thinking, and what happened during those hospital visits. Have you ever had a miscarriage? Sometimes you are sent home to miscarry. Keep in mind that a wanted pregnancy that is being lost can put you into a depressive head spin. Women like this don’t necessarily react the way we think they should act. People grieve in so many different ways. And not every doctor and nurse makes you feel comfortable. People leave hospitals and doctors offices because they don’t feel comfortable with how they are being treated. Black women are often treated badly by the medical establishment. The nurse that reported her to the police was rubbing her shoulders and telling her everything would be okay. Maybe Miss Watts didn’t trust her and left. We don’t know. I had a miscarriage and the doctor told me to schedule a D&C procedure and I left the office without scheduling and in shock. The doctor treated me coldly and harshly and I wanted nothing to do with her. I got a second opinion from another doctor and she was kind to me. She gave me a choice of a procedure or go home and I went home. Stop saying she did not care about herself. You don’t know that. Your comments throughout this channel have a very accusatory tone and attitude. It’s incredibly sad to see a fellow female being so unsupportive and mean-spirited.
@@melindablunk613 how do u know if she “did not care about herself even”? U don’t know that. There’s a lot u don’t know. Why aren’t u questioning how she is being treated? Not looking so good here, Melinda.
ALTHOUGH I'M 63, EVERY TIME I GET ON YT, I'M MOBILIZING PEOPLE TO GET OUT AND VOTE BLUE/DEMOCRAT!!! I'M BORN IN AN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, AND I'LL DIE IN ONE, TOO!!!! VOTE BLUE/DEMOCRAT 2024!!! BIDEN-HARRIS 2024!!!
@@melindablunk613 That's the exact opposite of all the reporting I've read but nice story I guess.
This is insane - what's happening in the USA? And that bloody nurse should be ashamed of herself.
This is VERY SAD!!!! If you loss a CHILD like this. Your already torn between the thoughts in your head. Thinking, maybe I could have done this or that. Just beating your own self up about the heartbreak of it. 💔💔💔
it is unfair for the kid to be in this world anywya, all kids suffer and die, the parents choose the path by getting preggers
So the nurse that reported her, also violated HIPPA. Breaking one law to report under another law should still get you fired and out of a job
Is having a miscarriage breaking a law?
America is traveling backwards at the speed of light,
I wish these ladies all the best .
Thanks to The Republican Taliban.
@Sexychildrenit wasn’t. Why are you here?
If you get selected for the jury for any of these cases, listen politely and then vote "Not Guilty." Make these laws unenforceable.
Unfortunately she relives her suffering at this court case
problem is that in reality, the red voters see jury duty as as duty & attend, while the blue voters see it as something to try to get out of, so chances are it will be a jury of red votes
If you do that you also have to say that you are unbiased and that you will apply the law as it is written. Remember that if you tell them you are against the law and how you are going to vote they will likely exclude you from the jury.
The other problem is it would be a jury of her “peers”, residents of a state with those laws.
Great idea except extreme conservative christians also end up on juries and if they are "pro Life" they'll find her guilty. They vote too so please vote for pro choice candidates!
This is monsterous. Shame on that nurse, shame on that DA and shame on the police!!! Women in this country are under attack and it is only getting worse. My heart breaks for this young woman.
I just cannot understand the hatred and lack of compassion women who are pregnant are being shown but I know it is rooted in religion, patriarchy and mysogeny. Women deserve so much better, esp in the land of the "free".
I had an abortion at about 20 weeks. There is no way I can imagine having to go through what this young lady is going through.
This is malicious prosecution and when she is exonerated I hope she sues everyone involved bc they even said there was no law or duty to report!! And it is 100% true that miscarriages happen in toilets often. What was she supposed to do? It is dead, not fully formed and bleeding out and in pain and shock...it is a massive trauma. So are you supposed to go fish out this blob and then....what?! Call a coroner? Comeon ppl, it is a common biological process and at that point it is a biohazard so flushing it seems logical to me.
Jeez, pretty soon menstruating will be a crime
I can't remember which lawmaker it was who shared her personal horrific experiences of her own miscarriages (I think a total of three) that caused her to then have to have what was medically defined as an abortion, then asked her Republican colleagues "After which of these should I have been arrested?"
Of course they all acted indignant, as though, naturally an exception would have been made for that kind of situation, and that she was just being dramatic and overly emotional.
Here we are, just a few years later, literally deciding whether or not a miscarriage (or its aftermath) is punishable by law.
As Stinky Rump said, "There needs to be some punishment for the woman." smfh
My mom had to flush one of her miscarriages. I remember her crying the whole day. This case is disgusting and insulting. It needs to be thrown out and the government needs to stop policing women’s bodies.
I don't recall in the book "What to expect when you're expecting" what are you supposed to do with a failed pregnancy? Was a chapter missing? Are we now supposed to bring it to a lawmaker? What exactly are we suppose to do with it?
I had miscarriage of a very wanted baby at 11weeks. I went to the doctor and had an ultrasound which showed there was just a membrane in the egg sack. There weren't any organs or body parts. It came away in the middle of the night & the egg sack was the size of a nerf ball. I tore it open and the ultrasound was right ; just a little membrane. And I hit the handle and flushed. No one has the answer as to what one should do with the product of a failed pregnancy. The doctors don't want it. Same with a hospital.
These ignorant men need to stay in their own lane.
I don't know if that was hard to share but... I am certain going through that was unbelievably difficult for you. I am trying to keep up with political news but stories like these do make it difficult to click on them because so many women want to keep the baby.
Not ignorant: EVIL and this is only the beginning of them taking away all women’s rights!
"These ignorant men need to stay in their own lane" - All of you women who say such unbelievably ignorant things need to stop trying to make this into a gender war. There are a huge number of us men who are right there with you, despite the fact that we don't experience this ourselves. On the other side, there are a huge number of women who are supporting this anti-abortion/pro-forced-birth legislation. This is NOT an issue that is split along gender lines, so stop pretending it is.
@@nomore6167 She didn't say "ALL men are ignorant" she wrote, "THESE ignorant men...referring to the men who are trying to use the government and right wing judiciary to control women's bodies. Thanks for not being an idjit, I guess.
@@transformationtimenow3321 "...referring to the men who are trying to use the government and right wing judiciary to control women's bodies." - Then I guess she conveniently ignored the fact that there are tons of women who are fighting alongside those ignorant men. Either that, or she's perfectly fine with those women trying to control her body.
Hope everyone who is close to keeps her mentally stable. She needs support from close people .
My heart breaks for this poor woman. Ohio is DISGUSTING and the people wanting to prosecute clearly have mental deficiencies. They better drop this this cruel case. And I hope she sues the crap out of them! I'm starting to hate my own country. It's becoming clearly evil. How is this my home...and as a woman I am beyond angry.
America is looking more like Giliad every day.
Ever since Lucifer Don held Bible upside down
100% Yes - a nightmare for women!
@@chumpthetraitor7331 What does the Roman god have to do with anything and what does it matter how a book of fiction is held??
@@lestercrowley1485Pretty sure they were just being funny - and they were, I was laughing. Pull in your claws, Alistair.
@@CatherinePearl100 Yeah, probably. It was a "just in case" comment.
Like it isn't hard enough to experience a miscarriage, geez. What an injustice. Mysogynistic. This poor girl, what an atrocity.
Many miscarriages happen on the toliet at home. This is terrifying
Imagine if we decided life started at the sperm cell and forced all men to get a vasectomy at a young age that would only be reversed by a court that has decided that a family is fit for a child?
Or if men were given long sentences for involuntary emissions
Sounds reasonable or mandatory vasectomies for all men that are not married.
Been saying this ever since the overturning of Roe VS Wade...
Men have no problem telling women what they should do with their bodies and genitals. But would NEVER accept laws being made around men's bodies.
Hypocrisy
Or if a woman can get in this much trouble for being pregnant, how about the assist they got, I mean shouldn’t the guy be in there as an accomplice? Although maybe I shouldn’t even say that because they will be next as lawyers look around at who they can exploit next in this insane saga, especially as they put financial bounties out there for these people.
"...that would only be reversed by a court that has decided that a family is fit for a child?" - I've been saying for over 20 years that that's the way it should be. There should be mandatory reversible "sterilization" at or near birth that can be reversed only when the person shows they can be a responsible parent. The reason I started believing that is because of all the child abuse, neglect, etc, that has plagued the U.S. for decades.
She needs to sue that nurse for disclosing her private health information. I can't believe a nurse would do that!
If the nurse was required by law or by policy to report what happened, this would be a protected disclosure.
@@LulaMae21 they just said she was not required to do that.
Was there more to this than it seems? I just can't comprehend why this nurse would do this.
@Creoles.nature i have a hard time understanding it myself because most of the nurses I've met are so compassionate and supportive. But, like any group of people, there are going to be awful garbage people among them. There's even been a few serial killer nurses.
One poster said; "What else will they take away?" The answer is...Everything! Including your right to vote and change the law. It's shocking that any woman/human can vote for Trump. He's proud of taking away your rights.
"Including your right to vote and change the law" - In the United States, voting is NOT a right, it is a privilege. Those is power are outright lying when they say we have the right to vote. A right is something that cannot be taken away. Voting privileges ARE taken away from people when they are convicted of a crime (and voting privileges are frequently NOT restored after the person has completed their court-ordered sentence. Do not buy into the BS that voting is a right. It should be, but it isn't.
They vote for Trump because of their family roots of racism. And the Husbands they're with.
Any woman vote republican cause it not just trump that’s taking away rights. It’s the whole party.
VOTE BLUE
VOTE BLUE/DEMOCRAT 2024!!! BIDEN-HARRIS 2024!!! TRUMP FOR PRISON 2025!!!!
I had to listen twice to get it. She's being prosecuted for a miscarriage? And her attending nurse reported it! Are we not allowed the same rights as men anymore? This is beyond appalling, that a nurse would take it upon herself to humiliate another woman like this is incomprehensible to me.
How can someone have criminal intent over a bodily function? What is happening in this country? They are stripping our personal rights away as citizens on a daily basis. What's next?! God help us all.
My husband and I had several miscarriages during the first 5 years of our marriage before we had to stop trying due to additional medical issues that later developed. It was no longer safe for me. It was devastating each and every time. I can’t imagine being held legally accountable for my body simply not being able to carry to term. This is disgusting, heartless and inhumane. The worst of human behavior I have ever heard of. I’m also African American and my heart breaks to know our country still holds women in such little regard, for such an awful experience as having a miscarriage of a wanted pregnancy simply because our body couldn’t carry to term. How evil.
She is legally accountable for trying to plunge her dead baby down the municipal septic system, not for not being able to carry her pregnancy to term. Is it not clear to you? As a former PICU and NICU nurse I can assure you that a 22 week gestation baby comes out in one piece and it is a completely formed tiny human body. It is not “fetal remains” as perhaps it could be called under 12 weeks of gestation. A 22 week old fetus probably weighs 300 to 500 grams and looks like a tiny human. What kind of mother would flush her dead baby down the toilet? Women have stillborn premature of full term babies every day. Do they leave them at the hospital? Never seen anything like that in my 20 year pediatric nurse career. A normal person will take the body home for a proper burial of cremation, for a proper remembrance ceremony. What is truly disgusting, heartless, and inhumane is trying to push the body of your own dead child down the toilet with a plunger. I can’t even imagine how deranged that 33 yo woman is. Maybe she should claim insanity to get herself a deal of some sort.
@DustinCastaneda7 don't he dumb? Do EXPLAIN
even if you had them ,the man most likely would leave you so you end up being lumbered with kids and poverty and as a single parent
@@DustinCastaneda7 You're commenting on several posts, all with your dim wit. Stop trolling.
"The situation unravelled on 22 September, when Ms Watts returned to the hospital and told healthcare providers that she had miscarried into a toilet and then used a plunger to flush. Upon her return to Mercy Health, a nurse alerted police to the end of her pregnancy. Investigators searched Ms Watts’ home and found the 22-week-old foetus wedged in the toilet’s pipes."
Do you intend to flush your miscarried child down the toilet too?
How about it’s time to understand how the female body works. I hope this woman finds peace over her life and body.
Tell us who the nurse is! Tell us who to call, write, or contact to protest this bs!
Isn’t that a HIPPA violation?
@@emilyfeagin2673 The nurse violated HIPPA by ratting out her patient. What goes around comes around.
I want to know too. How can we help, other than VOTE every single Republican out of office.
@@emilyfeagin2673 I think HIPAA became nothing more than a distant memory on the day Roe v. Wade was overturned.
I thought Ohio voted to pass abortion rights? I remember the R's tried to fight it, then they tried to word it in such a confusing way that people might accidentally vote against it. But it passed. What happened to that? Anyone else wonder if this would be different if the woman was white?
As someone who lost 3 babies before i had my daughter, this breaks my heart. She is grieving! This woman lost a child, whether it was born and breathing or not! Miscarriage feels like it rips ur soul out. She should be handled with care and given time and tenderness. Not sitting in a courtroom being charged for the very thing that probably destroyed her. This country is shameful!
What was she supposed to do with it? Shove it back in?
@@PolarisAb this was a pregnancy she wanted.
There is no right choice. The point is control.
I wish that was a joke but theyve already drafted bills that would require doctors to forcibly re-implant unviable pregnancies
I had my miscarriage in the hospital while sitting on the toilet. They asked me if I wanted to see my baby but even though I knew I would wish at a later time I would be wishing I had I couldn't bring myself at that moment to say yes. I needed time to process. Until you go through this yourself you have no right to say what is the right response to such a tragic occurrence
I’m sorry you experienced that. It’s more common than any old religious white dude can imagine.
I read after my miscarriage that it was in the 20% category, not super common but still not rare.
I felt both relieved (that maybe it wasn’t my fault), and also a little at a loss because my fundie Baptist upbringing never mentioned how so many pregnancies end involuntarily, long before viability.
I was forced to deliver a miscarried fetus into a toilet at Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge, VA. The nurse disposed of its remains.
Sorry for your loss.
@@juneramirez8580 This was probably commonplace in the 1990s, but I can still feel this girl's pain and humiliation today.
*Not only is she reliving her miscarriage mentally she now is being subjected to criticism from the world* 🙏🏾
when this story first broke, i thought it had been reported by a startled plumber or smth. that a nurse comforting her through the tragedy went and did it is absolutely shocking and disgusting.
The word is persecution .
Persecute: to treat (someone) cruelly or unfairly especially because of race or religious or political beliefs. Prosecute: means to pursue, carry out, or bring a lawsuit against a person or group.
@@hallnall1667 In this case, it’s persecution by prosecution.
I can only speak as a 68yo, white Australian male; but I find this whole story and all the other appalling things being done to so many women in the US just totally upsetting and inconceivable in a modern western democracy. I know there is discrimination and cases of injustice that occur in Australia, particularly for marginalised and disempowered women in our society, but at least we have a political and judicial system that wouldn’t allow this type of abuse to occur in the first place. Abortion in Australia has largely been decriminalised. At least, as I understand it, and according to Marie Stopes International Australia, Australia is on track to have universal care for women in this situation by 2030. Which century could this occur in the US?
We thought we had such a system, too, before Trump was allowed to become elected President. Since then, it’s become increasingly clear just how fragile that system actually is/was, and what actually held it together. It is not a thing unto itself. It is a manifestation of the collective will of the portion of the people who are willing to do what is required to make it so. Take our lesson and learn it.
@@erstwhile3793it started with the language. The obfuscation of language and its misogynistic take over, left women/females, vulnerable to all types of government over reach, as the govt doesn’t honor a definition of woman.
I'D BE DAMNED IF I KNOW!!! THIS IS WHY VOTING IN THE US IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT!!!
This girl was already in the hospital tal and chose to lock herself in the bathroom to dispose of her child because she didn’t want ant it to be born alive. She then disposed of the baby in the garbage and tried to clean up the blood to cover up her crime!!!😱
@@logicrealitytruthThat’s not even close to what happened. 1) The future child was very much wanted. 2) The fetus was no longer viable, confirmed by her dr.
Why would you lie about such a devastating tragedy, that’s now resulted in legal harassment on top of that?
I’m gonna guess you’ve never personally experienced a miscarriage. Otherwise you’d know how painful and shocking it is when you see that long awaited pregnancy end in such a banal, gruesome, and lonely way.
Who was the nurse, that reported this! We the people need to know!
This is maddening. Do they now want to criminalize a complete natural occurence? About 1/3 of pregnancies end up in a spontenous abortion also called miscarriage. Mostly during the first three months. Many women even don't know they are pregnant but think they experience just a somewhat late heavy period. It is nature's way to deal with non-viable embryo's, saving the energy of the mother and clear the way for a viable pregnancy. There are many causes for a miscarriage: too many or not enough chromosomes, a genetic disease, immune problems of mother, serious developmental deviations, underdeveloped placenta, hormonal problems.
What do women do if they get cramps: they go to the toilet. What is nect perform a burial of your period blood because there could be an embryo in the blood?
The treatment of this woman is disgusting and sickening.
Exactly. Been there!
In the article I read she said she didn’t want to scoop it out with all of the blood and feces that came out with it. What a horrible situation.
People listening to reason in "modern" times??! Preposterous!
@@deborahlawrence680 ppl dont want to talk about it but honestly its a disgusting process my pressure got so high I had to have EMTs co.e get me they pulled it out at the hospital and put it in a jar bout the size of a pickle jar the pregnancy happend at about 12 to 13 weeks ending 1st trimester to 2nd look like poo clots and a smashed bug 😢but if I was at home would have flushed it trulyI feel for anyone who have to experince this at any time also had a chemical such heavy heavy bleeding
Look well into this woman's story. It's a vile warning. The GQP's motto Cruelty is the point!
Prayers to this woman who is already experiencing horrible injustice. 🙏🏾
In 7 minutes they don't manage to say what she is charged for, yet use her demise to heat political debates. Great journalism...
They may charge her with abuse of a corpse. She miscarried at home and tried to flush the remains.
You unable to read?
That nurse that reported her to the police needs to be investigated for potential HIPAA violations.
@@BeginnerreadsthebibleThe things is, this is not a suspected crime…
@@Beginnerreadsthebibleabortion and miscarriage are not crimes in Ohio.
Then she will be absolved, and we can all move on @@MySignatureSoul
@@Beginnerreadsthebible "It's not a HIPPA violation to report a suspected crime to police" - Sorry, but I'm not going to accept information about a topic from someone who can't even spell it, especially after they saw it spelled correctly in my original comment.
The nurse was likely following policy at the facility and did not violate HIPAA.
I am so sick of seeing these cases, they are heartbreaking. If this is how pregnant women are to be treated in America, I will never have children. Meanwhile, the older generation is complaining about the declining birth rate. Why do you guys think women in my generation don't feel safe giving birth in 2023?
What is happening to this woman is disgraceful.
At 22 weeks that baby is well over a pound. You don’t flush a toilet on a baby that large
@@kmurray559 not only that, she did not flush, she used a plunger to force a flush.
@@idiotsinwhips I agree… This wasn’t a normal miscarriage. I’ve seen babies born at 22 weeks. Lots of which are born breathing and can survive for several hours
@@kmurray559 this video frames it as all that happened was she miscarried into a toilet, so misleading. Many of the articles paint quite a disturbing picture
@@idiotsinwhipsany normal person would want to hold their baby… Not flush him/her down the toilet. Problem is that she needs to be punished along with a lot of other girls. There was a vase where the girl Skylar burned and buried her baby in the backyard. Full Term and got off..
This is not even my country and it angers me
I've read Ohio's "abuse of a corpse" law is part of a law against grave robbing. A prosecutorial reach, if so.
"Corpse" isn't defined in the law, so it'll be a court fight whether it applies. Autopsy found the fetus died in utero, and fetal remains are treated differently from remains after a live birth in other Ohio laws.
Recent Ohio law says a fetus at 22 weeks + should be either buried or cremated. Maybe she didn't know that. It died before the miscarriage so it could have been at a younger gestational age. A fetus at that age is the size of a mango. The poor, traumatized woman was supposed to fish around the toilet bowl for it among the gore, umbilical and placenta. This prosecution is monstrous.
Fuc Oh-io!
@@JJ-kl5yj "Recent Ohio law says a fetus at 22 weeks + should be either buried or cremated" - In other words, the State wants to financially traumatize someone (by forcing them to waste several thousand dollars) to go along with the emotional trauma they're experiencing.
@@JJ-kl5yjSo she'd also have to get it a death certificate to get it cremated, I assume home cremation would be treated the same... is she supposed to keep it in the freezer next to the chicken while waiting for a death certificate... It makes no sense at all... we're going backwards
@@nomore6167that's the Republican way!
You are building a country that I do not want to visit and a country that I hope my daughter has the good sense to avoid too. How you can demonize women for something that is natural (and devastating) is beyond me.
To be fair, we're talking about a country that once demonised people for the colour of their skin.
Well because Republicans are jealous of Muslims, they want a theocracy too.
I really wanted to come to America before Trump was President. What is happening there now is truly horrific on many levels.
lol, it's still the greatest country on earth, flaws and all..
@@thehoboman-No it’s not. Never has been, never will be. You need to actually travel the world.
Well, this went exactly where everyone said it would when Roe VS Wade was overturned.
do you even know what's going on? this has nothing to do with Roe V Wade.
it is illegal for you to move or temper with a corpse.
@@bobbob-vw4ccRvW made it harder for Republican goons to criminalize pregnancy outcomes.
Also, what corpse?
@@bobbob-vw4ccbless your heart
@@firewater365she has no right to do what she did after the miscarriage are you serious? She tried to FLUSH THE CHILD DONW THE TOILET THAN TRIED TO BURY IT IN THE BACK YARD IN A BUCKET ARE YOU LISTENING TO YOURSELF!
So dissapointed in my home state. I hope justice prevails for this poor woman. Sending her healing vibrations and all my love.
"The situation unravelled on 22 September, when Ms Watts returned to the hospital and told healthcare providers that she had miscarried into a toilet and then used a plunger to flush. Upon her return to Mercy Health, a nurse alerted police to the end of her pregnancy. Investigators searched Ms Watts’ home and found the 22-week-old fetus wedged in the toilet’s pipes."
Glad to know you support forcing dead bodies down toilets with plungers.
@@idiotsinwhipswhat was she supposed to do?
@@kaylakuhl1680 anything but use a plunger to force the dead child down a toilet.
The fact you have to ask that is so sad.
@@idiotsinwhips So what do you think hospital's do with miscarriages? 😅
@@Hardawayfits after 24 weeks there is legal requirement to bury or cremate. Wow such a gotcha moment!
How can she be charged with abuse of a corpse? A corpse belongs to a person. Did the person this corpse belonged to have a name, or a birth certificate, or a social security number? A fetus is not a person or a baby, it becomes those things when it is born.
This is exactly part of the strategy…. If the Evangelical Right can get a court to declare that this miscarried fetus WAS a “corpse”, then they have made another step into codifying that all fetuses, and eventually embryos, are a “person”. This is about a minority religious belief being forced upon a secular majority shaping the law to fit their beliefs and subjecting the rest of us to them. It is not scientific, it is a belief, just like some people believe the earth is flat. Do we allow them to make laws for the rest of us? There are many cultures here on earth that do not consider a born human to be a “person” until much later post-birth. In some cultures you are not a considered to have full personhood until a year after being born and there are a few cultures that do not consider you to have full personhood until your 7th birthday. Yes, these children are born, they are alive but their cultures allow for a longer time for the soul/spirit to fully inhabit the body and thus achieve personhood. My point is not to argue who is “right” but to point out that different cultures have different beliefs as to when we become a fully incarnated human being. Making LAWS around a certain set of beliefs and forcing those beliefs on others (who may not believe the same thing at all) is the real crime here.
It is a human at that stage and looks human etc., BUT if this miscarriage had happened at the hospital, the baby would have been pitched with the medical waste, and NOT buried in a casket. The nurse here is a hypocrite.
You sound like a basketball american
@@anneahlert2997 No one said a fetus isn't human. But it is not a person and it is not a baby.
@@shlomogreengoyDirk Nowitzki is cool and all, but eventually YT will delete your account lol.
This is why I'm so grateful that I'm a member of Team Blue where all birthing people have access to free abortion clinics Vote blue to save our democracy. 💙💙
Birthing people…lol
@@christophercottrell8227 troll and traitor! I agree with you though on that.
@@christophercottrell8227 Yes, birthing people. Die mad about it.
Birthing WOMEN and if you are against WOMEN you don’t have any business here.
It is WOMEN that know, understand and hurt for what this WOMAN is going through.
@@vivimedina5925 Trans-men, some NBs and intersex are still capable of birth and these laws apply to them just as much as they apply to women.
So, if i have a miscarriage then im supposed to call the cops? Why?
beecause a dead miscarried fetus is more of a person than a mother. has more rights than the mother.
Just to be safe, you should always call the cops when you have a heavy period. Make sure to hand over your underwear and maxi pads as evidence. If the cops won't take them, mail them to the DA's office.
@@zammmerjammerThe funeral home, too. Perhaps from now on maxi pads should be cremated, just to be sure.
@@zammmerjammer Im gonna use this argument! Thank you!
Remember you tampons or diva cup contents too.
This is ridiculous. Losing her baby wasn’t enough punishment huh! Leave her alone!!
This is so sick it is making me physically ill.
Where are the consequences for the father of the child. If she's being charged, he should be charged for neglect of a child. I mean, if America is going to be unreasonable.
@ColoradoChillPillhe should be charged as an accomplice if they gonna make this poor woman suffer
This is most horrific thing I have seen, How tragic for this poor woman
I can’t stress enough that we need to know the name of the nurse who told on her!!!!!
Is it possible that hospital staff and practices is a part of what caused this lady to miscarry at home, in the toilet instead of in the safety of a hospital? It appears that the nurse who comforted her and then called the police did that in order to shield the hospital from responsibility in this entire mess.
Of course, doctors and hospitals are afraid, because the overturning of roe has put them in danger as well. They have overturned a law with no rules or parameters. How arrogant are these men who legislate our bodies without the use of data and research, and without consulting with medical professionals. They’ve gone too far! This woman is merely the scapegoat and is being demonized for something well beyond her control.
Shielding a hospital over the live of a woman who did nothing wrong and suffered a terrible loss is unethical to a T. And to be consoling to then report is outright two-faced and abusive.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE NURSE DID!!! I WONDER HOW SHE COULD LIVE WITH HERSELF AND SLEEP AT NIGHT!!!
@@HenriettaHudson-we4wv
That nurse doesn't deserve the luxury of a peaceful night's sleep. She doesn't deserve to be near people in crisis at all.
Exactly why did they let her go in the first place knowing the risk of passing a fetus that large. If she died then the hospital would be liable so why aren't they liable now? It's not like they gave her instructions on what to do if she passes the baby at home. Her lawyer sucks and this is another thing that needs to be looked at.
Absolutely outraged how she is being treated
STOP THE ABUSE OF WOMEN
OUR BODY OUR CHOICE
Why was she being reported to the police because she had a miscarriage? I'm confused like what?
Msnbc would have you believe that or she got arrested for being black, no its what she did with the remains of fetus.
She was reported to the police because she left her hospital bed, locked herself in the bathroom so she could deliver and dispose of her baby in the garbage to ensure that it wasn’t born alive.
She was reported to the police because she left her hospital bed, locked herself in the bathroom so she could deliver and dispose of her baby in the garbage to ensure that it wasn’t born alive.
She was reported to the police because she left her hospital bed, locked herself in the bathroom so she could deliver and dispose of her baby in the garbage to ensure that it wasn’t born alive.
Because the Republican Party hates women
This is absurd. She needs to be left to morn, to heal.
I have five daughters as well as a daughter-in-law, a wife, a mother (who's near a hundred years old), and a granddaughter, and in order to protect their rights from draconian laws being enacted that have a deleterious effect on them receiving quality health care, I shall never vote for a Republican candidate ever again in my life. However, that being said, the last time that I voted for a Republican candidate was in 1972 in a local election in Chicago. ...
🤣 🤣 🤣
@@enigma12990Never happened, puzzle boy.
The last time a Republican won Chicago mayor was when the tommy gun was around. So no big loss.
But it was funny to hear how the illegal immigrants are getting better treatment than the citizens.
Funny how major companies are leaving as well.
Keep voting blue and Chicago will look like Detroit. A decaying husk of a city.
Love from Texas BTW enjoy Biden's and your mayor's gift.
Haha, it’s been 100 years since any Republican was on any ballot for any local election in Chicago. Your story is phony. 😂
@@WinstonSmith24Wrong. There are Republicans on the ballot in Chicago.
Whose the Karen who reported this?
Watching from the UK. Unbelievable - in a horrific way. How did America get like this? Glad we're more civilised over here. Vote 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
I was thinking that too...what is the intention behind this? She needs to be Fired.
This is beyond evil! What happened to medical privacy laws? They are out the window. The nurse disclosed private information.
Nurses are mandatory reporters
@@BeginnerreadsthebibleThis is not a situation where she was bound to report anything mandatory. She decided to allow her own bias, morals and personal beliefs to determine her next move.
@@MySignatureSoulif you think a nurse decided this alone you know nothing about healthcare. I assure you a compliance officer was involved.
@@blakeusry124 I've only been in healthcare majority of my life lol.... In Nursing AT THAT!!! OVER 20 YEARS!
@@blakeusry124 Whether she acted alone or not, doesn't negate her own bias going into her feelings towards this situation and that goes for anyone who supported her decision to make the call.
Women... this is not your fault that you're facing this hellhole, but you have the power to change it. Many men will join you in this fight! (including me) You just have to vote for people who will protect your rights and not oppress you.
they are very quiet for those women who don't want kids and many men keep pressurising them to have them, even when unwanted. Many men just think women are baby making machines
You made me cry thankfully there are men with empathy and common sense
@msk.7878 Absolutely! This is a bipartisan belief. It's clear that the majority of men and women in every state want abortion rights. We don't want the government to do what this prosecutor is doing to this woman. I'm a staunch supporter of abortion rights, and I lost my mind when Roe was overturned. I'm a refugee from Iran, and I know firsthand how an authoritarian government treats women who get abortions (they're killed). They treat you as less important than my sperm. To them, YOU dying trying to give birth is perfectly okay for them. My mother had to give birth to a baby that wasn't going to survive long after birth. The doctors told her this months earlier, and she had no choice but to carry him to term... then he died in my mom's arms.
America needs to show its women more respect. I say this as an American who lives in Ohio, and I find this disgusting behavior from my state abhorrent
Well, apparently more people felt otherwise when they were voting for state legislators.
Keep voting blue!
@@martalli Ohio is an horrifically gerrymandered state. 50% of the state votes blue but Republicans managed to gerrymander the districts to snag 2/3rd of the Representatives.
America can fix this by voting for different candidates. We have to stop electing people who are making this happen. Everyone has to vote, everyone.
Good time to move
I pray the young lady sues the nurse. That nurse needs to lose her license.
Hold the fathers accountable and these laws would be gone faster than a ice cube in a volcano
His body his choice
How does this even involve the father?
@@carultch You don't know how babies are made ?
@@adancer3592I do, but you are missing my point entirely. How is the father culpable for this miscarriage, that he needs to be held accountable?
@@carultch If the child lived woukd he responsible for the care & welfare of that child ?
Some needs to report this nurse and file a grievance against her if possible.
This is so horrific. I lost twins at 22 weeks as well. I went into labor early and gratefully had them in the hospital, but it could have happened a lot quicker and could have been in this very same position. You cannot imagine the pain and grief that comes from losing a child, or children in my case, so far along. This woman's milk will come in. She will have no baby to feed. The cruelty of that alone is enough to break any woman. But to then be criminalized for her actions at such a devastating time is beyond comprehension.
But would you have attempted to flush your 22 week old twins down the toilet had you delivered at home?
I’m not really for this woman being prosecuted, but I AM concerned about her mental/cognitive state that she felt that she could deliver her stillborn baby in the toilet and then… flush…
A 22 week old fetus is VERY different than a miscarried one that typically happens before 10 weeks gestation…
@@TheBenitaAngelashe didn’t try to flush them she just miscarried in the toilet. Which happens more than you think because your bowls and bladder and womb as a woman are all intertwined.
If she wasn’t aware that is what was happening at that time then it can easily happened it happened to me and I thought it was just a blood clot until I showed my obgyn. I was extremely early on so it didn’t look like anything to me really besides and unusually big blood clot.
So should I be prosecuted as well then? Absolutely not.
The whole flushing thing with her is alleged anyways I highly doubt she did that unless she was in a state of extreme grief and panic. However it’s pretty much impossible for her to have flushed without causing some internal harm to herself.
She could not have flushed because the cord is still ATTACHED to her! And it’s really hard to cut it without special scissors as well. So I highly doubt she flushed it unless it was early on, like early early.
They are just bullying a woman who lost her child and are trying to demonize her for it. I was actually called a m*rderer for having a miscarriage by degenerates who don’t understand how a woman’s body works, this has been happening to many women lately it’s getting worse and worse each day. The harassment, the doxxing all because of something we as women can not control.
She went to the hospital multiple times for help they refused to help her which should be illegal, if she was able to pass the fetus safely in the hospital then none of this would have happened.
@@TheBenitaAngela this issue is a direct result of negligence on the hospitals end. If the medical staff knew she was having a miscarriage (still birth) then she should have never been discharged and if she was, instructions should have been given to her about what to do once she delivers the baby. They failed to do that so they should be held accountable not her. You can't expect any woman to know what to do in the situation unless they are trained nurse or physician. Most women that have miscarriages and are sent home flush the fetus away in the toiliet.. statistically this is just what women do when they have a miscarriage. If not then I would imagine the hospital would keep them and have them deliver the non viable fetus under their care. Why she was discharged knowing she was 22 weeks remains a mystery but the hospital staff are at fault. The nurse reporting her for delivering her child at home at 22 weeks and disposing of the body sounds like it was set up for her to fail. The nurse should be charged too for failing to care for this patient. Even as a physician something sounds off with this story. Patients are not normally discharged from the hospital if they are having a miscarriage after 20 weeks. If she died while giving birth to the fetus at 20+ weeks (which is a likely possible since the fetus is larger which poses more risk) the hospital and nurse who sent her home would indefinitely be held liable. Not sure why it's different now but we will see how this case unfolds.
@@Calvin.rx1l THANK YOU!
@@itzTeTeat 22 weeks there would have been an umbilical chord... She knew. She tried to flush a 22 week.
Why is a judge even allowing this to go on?