A Black Ohio woman who miscarried in her bathroom has been charged with abuse of a corpse. Thirty-three-year-old Brittany Watts, of Warren, awaits grand jury action.
    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
      343·
      11 months ago

      Not all of them! Some literally have zero idea what they’re voting for and just follow party lines. John Oliver had a recent episode on abortion rights where he played a clip of an interview with a Republican from Idaho who admitted he didn’t even look at an extremely restrictive anti-abortion bill before voting in favour of it. Only after it passed did he meet with OB/GYNs who educated him of all the terrible implications of the law which has caused him to reconsider his position.

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        431·
        11 months ago

        “I didn’t know the extent of the rights I was stripping before I voted to strip rights away from people”

        Yeah he doesn’t get a pass

        He’s in a position of power, he could have literally asked professionals in relevant fields their opinions before voting on it but he didn’t

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          11 months ago

          He knew. He voted any way.

          And now he’s trying to weasel out of the backlash

      • Nunar@lemmy.world
        81·
        11 months ago

        This is trash. These people are voting for this. “I didn’t know isn’t an excuse.”

      • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        11 months ago

        It was like this in Kansas when we voted. I can talk to them and many are actually somewhat reasonable, so when you tell them about some of the implications they’re horrified.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    33·
    11 months ago

    “If we are going to require people to collect and bring used menstrual products to hospitals so that they can make sure it is indeed a miscarriage, it’s as ridiculous and invasive as it is cruel.”

    Let’s not give them any ideas…

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visit to a doctor’s office behind Mercy Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Warren, a working-class city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Cleveland.

    Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump elevated Watts’ plight in a post to X, formerly Twitter, and supporters have donated more than $100,000 through GoFundMe for her legal defense, medical bills and trauma counseling.

    Michele Goodwin, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and author of “Policing The Womb,” said those efforts have long overwhelmingly targeted Black and brown women.

    Her lawyer believes Watts may have meant that she didn’t want to fish what she knew was a dead fetus from the bucket of blood, tissue and feces that she’d scooped from her overflowing toilet.

    “This 33-year-old girl with no criminal record is demonized for something that goes on every day,” she told Warren Municipal Court Judge Terry Ivanchak during Watts’ recent preliminary hearing.

    Warren Assistant Prosecutor Lewis Guarnieri told Ivanchak that Watts left home for a hair appointment after miscarrying, leaving the toilet clogged.

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