Plog Number 256
Post Dobbs, a dangerous time to miscarry
Hello Ploggers, how are you. There is so much Ohio stuff to talk about. We are a state who is always enigmatic. We are very Red, way too Red. We voted for 45 twice. I am highly👾 ashamed of that last one. But we also voted to enshrine Women’s Reproductive Rights in our Constitution 😀 this past year. We have had Sherrod Brown as our Democratic Senator since 2007. He is awesome and he doesn’t take any money from the 👍NRA. I will be working hard for him to stay in the Senate against all the 45 loving candidates. After all 45 did get newcomer JD Vance into that position over experienced Democrat Tim Ryan from the US House Representatives.
Despite the voters voice on Reproductive Rights we had a bad situation going on right under our nose. By right under our nose I mean in Warren, Ohio. Brittany Watts made the national news when she miscarried and had to flush the fetal remains down the 🚽toilet. The local authorities brought charges against her for Abuse of a Corpse. Never mind that many women have had that exact same experience. I have had that experience when I had a partial miscarriage. I remember when I was a little girl, hearing that one of my sisters had that happen to her. So lets talk about the toilet thing. I bet half of all American women know of someone who had the same experience. Watts went to a Catholic Hospital St. Joseph's twice during her ordeal. I was shocked to learn that it was a nurse who call the police and rubbed her shoulders while she was interrogated by Detective Nick Carney who later charged her.
Women sit on the toilet every time we go to the bathroom. Whether we pee or 💩 poop or even sometimes, miscarry we sit on the toilet. When fetuses are healthy and firmly attached to us, we go to the bathroom and nothing comes out expect the usual. But when a fetus is unhealthy and/or non viable, other things happen. Women have discovered their products of conception in their panties, on maxi pads, in beds and in toilets. I feel that many men are unaware of these simple facts.
Brittany Watts had gone to the local ED twice before she miscarried. She wanted her child. She was a 34 year old woman planning to have this👶 child. However things interfered with her plans and she lost the pregnancy. She suffered an emotional loss. The hormones a woman’s body produces to support a pregnancy are powerful. The human body is an amazing machine. When a pregnancy goes away, the emotions involved are on 🔥fire. Your mood is blue and emotional and labile. Then finally your body realizes that it doesn’t have a pregnancy to support anymore and it stops the hormones abruptly and that causes emotional pain too. A sudden drop in hormones can be brutal.
So charging a woman for something that has happened to her and not because of her and putting her into the national spotlight has got to be difficult. The only part of this story that is uplifting is that the Grand jury did not deliver the true bill. The True Bill did not indict. They did not find the facts sufficient to bring her to trial. She will never be found guilty or innocent. She will never have to defend her actions. I like to believe it was because enough people on that grand jury knew how miscarriages work in real life. Also the evidence produced by the coroners office showed that the fetus had died prior to the remains falling into the toilet. In other words, the words of the coroner were more believed than those of Watts the mother, the woman.
The only good thing to come of the story is that national attention came to an issue that too many people don’t know about. It is a woman’s business when she decides to flush her toilet after she miscarries. Stop🚫 the scrutiny. There has to be other things that need attention compared to this situation. That nurse had a duty to her patient. But instead she picked up the phone and got her arrested. Maybe that is what her Catholic Hospital instructs her to do. Ohio has shown its ignorance in this area. Remember the 10 year old rape victim who had to go to Indiana for an abortion? Yes, another shameful act starting in Ohio. In this Watts case the Grand Jury swooped in and saved the day. As I said initially, it is a dangerous time to miscarry in this post Dobbs world. What should a woman do with her fetal remains? Should she be honest with the nursing staff? Ohio is enigmatic and there is always something to talk about. RECLAIM
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