Wow. It's worth pasting portions of the story.
"When the bleeding and the pain from the impending miscarriage got severe, she did the same thing that many women who miscarry at home do. Brittany went into her bathroom, miscarried into her toilet and flushed."
A nurse from St. Joseph Warren Hospital called 911 after Watts came there suffering "life-threatening hemorrhaging," later leading to police investigating and charging Watts, who had no previous criminal history, with a felony offense.
Guarnieri argued in favor of having the case move forward in court, saying that the state did not have to prove fetal viability, citing a portion of Ohio Revised Code that reads, "no person, except as authorized by law, shall treat a human corpse in a way that would outrage reasonable community sensibilities."
Warren Municipal Court Judge Terry Ivanchak agreed, determining there was probable cause for the case to be bound over to the grand jury.
The judge stated during the hearing, "There are better scholars than I am to determine the exact legal status of this fetus, corpse, body, birthing tissue, whatever it is."
Timko previously said that no law requires a mother suffering from a miscarriage of a nonviable fetus to bury or cremate the remains.
"Women miscarry into toilets everyday. If the state of Ohio expects these women to fish those remains from the toilet and deliver them to a hospital, funeral home or crematorium, the laws need changed," Timko said, adding that "we aren't there yet."
She further stated, "Regardless of politics or religion, this matter hinges on the law. It is a travesty that Brittany (Watts) was charged and we will continue to fight."
Her client's fate now rests in the hands of a grand jury that will determine whether to indict Watts on felony charges, which would take case to the next step of being presented to a Trumbull County Common Pleas court judge.
Over the past few months, Watts has seen one of most private, intimate moments of her life become the center of a national debate over the criminalization of pregnancy, but also has been met with thousands of people showing support.
1. "Outrage in community sensibilities."
I found that an interesting bar to leap. Who's to say ? I'm outraged that people vote for Trump. Let's use that to jail them!!!
2. "Whatever it is."
The judge sounds about as wise as my 20 year old idiot self!
3. "Fish remains from a toilet."
Yeah, that's just cruel!!!!
The couple/woman can be emotionally devastated, but now the law requires her to be a CSI investigator.
"How come my poop isn't brown? I'd better Fish it out and bring to the hospital for investigation."
"Uh, either you have severe hemorrhoids or you are a murderer, Ms Smith."
What a joke, as in absurd, not haha funny.
