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A huge percentage of pregnancies end in miscarriage, very often before the woman even knows she was pregnant. This is the same. She should have to take special care of the mass her body rejected just because it was in there a little longer? What's the cutoff for having to report that you had a miscarriage, then? Every period? Every time you have a period that's a week or two late, because that is reasonably likely to have been a miscarriage?

This was a non-viable fetus. It was never going to be a person. It's not a corpse.

This is what the “pro-life” movement is all about. Punishing women

Every woman in Ohio should call the coroner to report their monthly discharge, just in case

Ohio continuing its slow march onto the list of places I won’t travel to anymore. I’ve stopped voluntarily traveling (and spending money in) states I find politically abhorrent, and it feels great. Texas made the list last year, and Florida this year. Cancelled our FL vacation and decided to go to California instead.

Who the hell would want to get pregnant in the US at this point?

Too bad medical science can't invent a killer virus that takes out right wing fundamentalists with pinpoint accuracy.

The laaaaaaaaand of the freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

She's black so the point is it's supposed to be ok.

I wish I was joking.

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

The hospital staff notified the Warren Police Department, which responded to Watts’ home, the coroner’s office report says.

CNN reached out to the hospital for comment about why staff notified police. Maureen Richmond, vice president of integrated communications at Mercy Health – a Catholic health care system that includes St. Joseph Warren Hospital – sent the following statement to CNN:

“The safety and security of every patient who comes to us for care is our highest priority. Out of respect for patient privacy, we will not discuss individual specifics of care.

Except when it comes to snitching on people.

The people that pushed this law should be doxxed and harassed until the end of their days. And don't @ me about their families being targeted. Fuck their families.

Wtf....

Damn this poor woman needs support not legal bullshit.

So there are some weird parts to this one. First of all, she could legally get an abortion, and when she went to the doctor initially for PROM and oligohydramnios (water broke at 21 weeks, and there was little/no amniotic fluid), the doctor recommended an abortion. She left AMA. Then came back, again an abortion was recommended, and she was told the fetus wasn't viable, and again she left AMA. She ended up delivering in a toilet, then collected blood / clots and tissue in a bucket that she left by the garage outside, but left the fetus in the toilet.

I'm not going to judge what a woman does after a miscarriage, and I'm not going to pretend to know what it feels like to be told your fetus isn't viable and an abortion would be best. But this sounds like a much more complex case than the title makes it out to be, in fact it seems like it has next to nothing to do with abortion restrictions, which I'm a huge proponent against, as every woman should have autonomy over her body.