A woman in the United States has been charged with abuse of a corpse after experiencing a miscarriage at 21 weeks pregnant.
Brittany Watts, 33, could face a year in prison or a $3,731 fine in Ohio, where abortion is legal but highly restricted.
Watts began experiencing signs of a “non-viable pregnancy” at 21 weeks and five days when she passed thick blood clots. A day later, she was waiting in urgent care at the cut-off time for legal abortion, which is 21 weeks and six days.
A doctor told her that while the foetal heartbeat was still present, her water had broken prematurely and the foetus wouldn’t survive. If she didn’t have her labour induced (amounting to an abortion to deliver the non-viable foetus), her case records show she would face “significant risk” of death.
Watts waited to be seen by urgent care as hospital officials were deliberating over the legalities of performing an abortion for her. After eight hours and without receiving treatment, she returned home where she miscarried in a toilet.
Police later found Watts’s foetus wedged in the pipes. Testimony and autopsy confirmed that the foetus died in utero before passing through the birth canal and no injuries to the foetus were found.
Nevertheless, Watts was charged with abuse of a corpse – a fifth-degree felony – and last month, her case was sent to a grand jury. Before this, she had no criminal record.
Source: US woman could face a year of prison after suffering a miscarriage
And this is why Republicans will lose the election. They are as sick and twisted as the democrats.