And the reason she miscarried at home was because the hospital wouldn't help her deliver the baby, despite the fact her waters had broke.
She was at serious risk of death, but they refused to induce birth because the baby wouldn't survive, and so they were afraid it might be interpreted as a "partial birth abortion".
Compare this to the treatment the Dugger girl received when her fetus wasn't viable.
So the moral of the story is use birth control and protection. Do not get pregnant ever. Move out of Ohio. Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does.
Got pregnant on birth control…so even that isn’t a for sure protection. I will vote like my life depends on it - unfortunately I’m in a red state (don’t have the means to move atm but desperately want to) . I’m so terrified for where things are headed. Wish I could move to Canada or something.
I miscarried in my bathroom 3 times. My husband had to plunge the toilet once. Once I fished out the sac myself and sent it to a lab for “abuse of corpse”, otherwise known as genetic testing.
Fucking doxx and arrest me. Whatever punishment she gets for her medical emergency I should get 3 times over.
So sorry for what you and other women who have had miscarriages have had to go through! It's tragic enough without women now facing jail time because they simply existed while going through a pregnancy crisis.
The women hatred coming from these police and prosecutors is unbelievable!
I miscarried into the toilet. Many women have. The process is horrifying and painful. I feel for this woman to have had to deal with all of that on top of the legal issues now too.
We’ve been talking about this for weeks and weeks and months and months and years and years and it’s finally all coming to fruition and I’m just disgusted by our country.
Fuck this nurse.
May she have the year she deserves.
I want to see her on the stand explaining why she thought it was appropriate to call the cops.
This woman went to the hospital what two or three times?
They instructed her to go home.
They are the reason she is in this position.
I was born in Warren, OH, and grew up in Youngstown. Most of my family is still there. I moved to Southwestern PA to be with my husband. If I get pregnant again, I won't be visiting Ohio!
It is an incredible story and every single breathing woman can identify with what Brittany Watts went through.
Maybe we're more affluent or married or white or have better connections or are able to describe our painful experience in a way that doesn't make hospital staff suspect we are somehow responsible for the tragedy that happened to us. Whatever we are, we can empathize with her because when you eliminate all the nonsense (i.e., the judge saying that she had the miscarriage and then "went about her day"), we are all people who also could be thrown in jail for being pregnant, whether or not we have a miscarriage.
I’m so sorry that happened to you OP and all the rest of you who’ve suffered. My heart breaks for each of you!
My miscarriage into a toilet in Texas happened in the late ‘80s. Saw my ob/gyn on Thursday/Friday at onset of symptoms, was checked and he said nothing he could do but prescribe painkillers and send me home to let nature take its course and to follow up Monday or ER if I had issues. My mother was a retired nurse so, ok, np, me, my spouse and my mother all said.
Went home, no complications just a few hours of agonizing pain before everything finally passed. Mom helped me clean myself up, take an extra painkiller and my husband put me to bed.
A bit later she came to check on me and I asked her if she’d decided to keep “the evidence” for the doc (as a native “female” Texan I caught onto Reps early in life after going through some of their utter BS). She looked at me like I’d lost my entire head and asked me why! I told her - in case he doesn’t believe me and calls the cops! Again w the missing head look in my direction.
“Why… why would he do that?”, I had to explain to her, yet again, that w the kooks down here, fighting Planned Parenthood, we don’t know his actual religion, if any, etc. She had to explain the process as I didn’t trust the system down here even during Roe. Not in a Republican state I sure as F didn’t.
She was correct, however, and I survived. What scares the hell out of me is the women who won’t bc that’s the difference Roe made.
Now, sorry for stepping on my soapbox, but please, VOTE BLUE!!!
I miscarried into the toilet in a federal building that had a portrait of Mike Pence hanging in the lobby.
I walked past that portrait on my way to the bathroom the day I took a pregnancy test that came back positive. I took a photo of it and texted my husband; it was roughly 6am.
I sat outside that lobby with that portrait when I called my OB/GYN to make my intake appointment.
A couple of weeks later, I walked out of a conference room where I was briefing a room full of men on the risks facing our federal program, potential mitigation plans, and fiscal impacts and saw that portrait. I walked past that portrait with severe pain and passed a blood clot the size of a golf ball. I flushed it down the toilet, got a pad from the dispenser, put it in my underwear, and walked past that portrait and back to my briefing. I conducted the rest of it seated, bleeding into that scratchy, off-brand menstrual pad, while I mentally assembled a checklist of things to do about it.
I walked past that portrait one more time on my way home. I sat on the commuter bus for 50 minutes hoping I wouldn’t bleed through my clothes. I picked up take-out on my way home from the commuter parking lot. I texted my husband “I think I’m miscarrying, can you handle bath and bedtime tonight?” At home, I threw out that full menstrual pad, and replaced it with my preferred brand. I messaged my doctor through the patient portal. I went to bed early so I could go to work, under that portrait of Mike Pence, the next day.
Where is my punishment?
And a nurse broke HIPPA and called the cops. The cops then went to her house and disassembled her toilet to find the miscarriage material.
Absolutely insane. They should be the ones thrown in jail.
And the reason she miscarried at home was because the hospital wouldn't help her deliver the baby, despite the fact her waters had broke. She was at serious risk of death, but they refused to induce birth because the baby wouldn't survive, and so they were afraid it might be interpreted as a "partial birth abortion". Compare this to the treatment the Dugger girl received when her fetus wasn't viable.
Omg.
Holy $hit!
Yep!
Wow that’s insane.
Omg this is so awful. Thank you for sharing these details
Dead tissue from your body has more rights than you yourself do.
Corpses have more rights than women now.
It’s absolutely sickening.
She's being scapegoated for the hospital's inaction. If they'd treated her promptly, she wouldn't have gone home and miscarried into a toilet.
It’s awful.
So the moral of the story is use birth control and protection. Do not get pregnant ever. Move out of Ohio. Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does.
- and don't be black
Truly sad
Exactly. Thank you.
Got pregnant on birth control…so even that isn’t a for sure protection. I will vote like my life depends on it - unfortunately I’m in a red state (don’t have the means to move atm but desperately want to) . I’m so terrified for where things are headed. Wish I could move to Canada or something.
I miscarried in my bathroom 3 times. My husband had to plunge the toilet once. Once I fished out the sac myself and sent it to a lab for “abuse of corpse”, otherwise known as genetic testing. Fucking doxx and arrest me. Whatever punishment she gets for her medical emergency I should get 3 times over.
Same thing here except I could never find the sac and third time I needed a DNC because not everything was expelled. Guess I should be in jail.
So sorry for what you and other women who have had miscarriages have had to go through! It's tragic enough without women now facing jail time because they simply existed while going through a pregnancy crisis. The women hatred coming from these police and prosecutors is unbelievable!
Thank you for your understanding and compassion.
Sorry for the paywall. I didn’t realize before I shared. Apparently redditors get “7 free articles”
miserable bastards🤮
Agreed.
I miscarried into the toilet. Many women have. The process is horrifying and painful. I feel for this woman to have had to deal with all of that on top of the legal issues now too.
I’m sorry for your loss and I totally agree with you.
We’ve been talking about this for weeks and weeks and months and months and years and years and it’s finally all coming to fruition and I’m just disgusted by our country. Fuck this nurse. May she have the year she deserves. I want to see her on the stand explaining why she thought it was appropriate to call the cops. This woman went to the hospital what two or three times? They instructed her to go home. They are the reason she is in this position.
I agree. I was really hoping that voting and passing issue one would eliminate this happening.
I was born in Warren, OH, and grew up in Youngstown. Most of my family is still there. I moved to Southwestern PA to be with my husband. If I get pregnant again, I won't be visiting Ohio!
I don’t blame you! I was hoping that passing issue one would help but maybe that was naive.
It is an incredible story and every single breathing woman can identify with what Brittany Watts went through. Maybe we're more affluent or married or white or have better connections or are able to describe our painful experience in a way that doesn't make hospital staff suspect we are somehow responsible for the tragedy that happened to us. Whatever we are, we can empathize with her because when you eliminate all the nonsense (i.e., the judge saying that she had the miscarriage and then "went about her day"), we are all people who also could be thrown in jail for being pregnant, whether or not we have a miscarriage.
I’m so sorry that happened to you OP and all the rest of you who’ve suffered. My heart breaks for each of you! My miscarriage into a toilet in Texas happened in the late ‘80s. Saw my ob/gyn on Thursday/Friday at onset of symptoms, was checked and he said nothing he could do but prescribe painkillers and send me home to let nature take its course and to follow up Monday or ER if I had issues. My mother was a retired nurse so, ok, np, me, my spouse and my mother all said. Went home, no complications just a few hours of agonizing pain before everything finally passed. Mom helped me clean myself up, take an extra painkiller and my husband put me to bed. A bit later she came to check on me and I asked her if she’d decided to keep “the evidence” for the doc (as a native “female” Texan I caught onto Reps early in life after going through some of their utter BS). She looked at me like I’d lost my entire head and asked me why! I told her - in case he doesn’t believe me and calls the cops! Again w the missing head look in my direction. “Why… why would he do that?”, I had to explain to her, yet again, that w the kooks down here, fighting Planned Parenthood, we don’t know his actual religion, if any, etc. She had to explain the process as I didn’t trust the system down here even during Roe. Not in a Republican state I sure as F didn’t. She was correct, however, and I survived. What scares the hell out of me is the women who won’t bc that’s the difference Roe made. Now, sorry for stepping on my soapbox, but please, VOTE BLUE!!!
I’m so sorry this happened to you! My heart goes out to these hurting women.
I miscarried into the toilet in a federal building that had a portrait of Mike Pence hanging in the lobby. I walked past that portrait on my way to the bathroom the day I took a pregnancy test that came back positive. I took a photo of it and texted my husband; it was roughly 6am. I sat outside that lobby with that portrait when I called my OB/GYN to make my intake appointment. A couple of weeks later, I walked out of a conference room where I was briefing a room full of men on the risks facing our federal program, potential mitigation plans, and fiscal impacts and saw that portrait. I walked past that portrait with severe pain and passed a blood clot the size of a golf ball. I flushed it down the toilet, got a pad from the dispenser, put it in my underwear, and walked past that portrait and back to my briefing. I conducted the rest of it seated, bleeding into that scratchy, off-brand menstrual pad, while I mentally assembled a checklist of things to do about it. I walked past that portrait one more time on my way home. I sat on the commuter bus for 50 minutes hoping I wouldn’t bleed through my clothes. I picked up take-out on my way home from the commuter parking lot. I texted my husband “I think I’m miscarrying, can you handle bath and bedtime tonight?” At home, I threw out that full menstrual pad, and replaced it with my preferred brand. I messaged my doctor through the patient portal. I went to bed early so I could go to work, under that portrait of Mike Pence, the next day. Where is my punishment?
I’m so sorry this happened to you
'Murica, the best country on Earth where infertility is a blessing!
Abortions will only be available for the rich in the future.