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Grand jury declines to indict Ohio woman facing charges after she miscarried
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Yeah and she didn’t “go about her day”, she went to the hospital for medical care after her body went through a physically traumatic event.
He makes it sound like she just popped up off the toilet, threw on her heels, and went to dinner with friends.
Fucking scumbag
This. She'd sought medical care repeatedly, was sent home to miscarry on her own, then went back to the ER the day afterwards.
Like, what the fuck else was she supposed to do?!
I don’t know anything about this case. But this is from the article OP posted:
The coroner's report said Watts then signed herself out of the hospital against medical advice "to process the information she was told." She returned to the hospital the next day, but again left a second time against the advice of doctors.
Did she not experience hours and hours of waiting time when she was not attended to? I don’t believe she was in a bed or any comfortable area in the hospital. If I knew I was going to experience a tragic miscarriage and the hospital could not help me, I would go prefer to miscarry at in the emotional and physical comfort of home versus a hospital reception area.
This is what we encourage in my country, and when I managed miscarriages it was one of the “pros” I would explain to my patients when we discussed natural/expectant and medical management vs surgical management. It’s why I chose medical management for myself initially when I miscarried. Most women would prefer to be in the comfort and safety of their own home, with their support system.
I’m so fortunate to have run this clinic in a country that protects reproductive rights. This story is horrifying.
This is the way. Individualized patient care will always have better results than cookie-cutter medicine. Unfortunately there are too many people that get pissed when they ask “hypothetically, what do?” And the answer is “well…it really depends”, because that literally true, so we cater to the public’s emotions regarding their own lack of understanding of the greater context instead.
I don’t believe she was in a bed or any comfortable area in the hospital.
I read a previous article that quoted someone as saying that they returned to room to find she had pulled the IVs out herself and left. That said, because of how restrictive the law is, all the hospital could do was make her comfortable and wait, so I can understand why she'd leave.
As an aside, I think we need to be very clear here that it is the legislators that are at fault. Hospitals and doctors are in a terrible position. Ohio's laws are written in such a way that abortion is a crime and a doctor has to put forth an affirmative defense to get an exception. This is similar to self-defense laws in many states: you admit that you committed the crime, but you were justified. Imagine if you had to go work at a job where if you were asked to commit a crime and whether or not you go to prison depends on how well you did your job, but you still might have to go through an investigation and have to defend yourself in court.