If any abuse of a corpse happened in the case of Brittany Watts, it was perpetrated by hospital that sent her home to labor alone—traumatized, endangered & heartbroken at the loss of her desperately wanted child—after 2 separate visits to the ER. They definitely abused her. 1)
How about we will help you keep & raise your baby? Overwhelming number of adoptions are driven by poverty & injustice to birth families. Then they are placed with foster families given money which could have helped family raise them.
Her vicious & unjust treatment in being charged for a crime is clearly a political stunt intended to further the ever increasing mistreatment & terrorization of pregnant women at ever decreasing stages. 18)
Though technically called a miscarriage because it is less than 22-24 weeks, a 20 week labor & delivery is frequently as long & agonizing. Doing it alone is a traumatic nightmare & the hospital committed grave & arguably racist malpractice by refusing to admit her. 15)
30 weeks is what outraged people are imagining, & corrupt authorities leveraging: a fully developed & identifiable premature baby. Always delivered in a hospital if physically possible, & any ER that sent someone in that situation away would face the most severe consequences. 3)
Hospital’s cruelty clearly communicated this was not a real labor & a real baby & she deserved no help. They knew but concealed from her the barely hit Ohio requirement for burial at 20 weeks. If she & baby were abandoned why would she expect help & know what to do? 17)
And it sets a horrific precedent in which we could be similarly mistreated & controlled for miscarriages at 18, & 16, & 14, & 12 weeks. What will be next? If zygotes are full humans with not just equal but greater rights than their vessels, it could be anything. fin)
When her tiny dead baby finally came out, she would have been in shock, & desperately needing care herself, with continued contractions & blood loss. A nightmare with a partner & medical care & exponentially so alone. Near zero knowledge what to do with corpse & self. 16)
In vast majority of cases they happen on a toilet, with days of contractions & repeat visits from heavy bleeding with huge clots—up to size of a lemon—& feces. Virtually impossible to detect, cruel to expect, & we who try normally fail. Flushing is appropriate & universal. 10)
10 weeks, at other end of the spectrum, is a very clear miscarriage of an infinitesimal fetus: 3 cm & 8 grams. Zero chance of survival & very rare detection among the floods of blood & huge clots that can last for days & sometimes over a week. I tried & cried. 8)
30 week babies are roughly 3 pounds & 17 inches, with a 98 percent survival rate, though they are medically vulnerable & spend lengthy amounts of time in the newborn/infant NICU. 4) ).
20 week fetuses are clearly identifiable via ultrasound, which is both heartbreaking for parents & illusion fueling for others. But they are extremely tiny at 6 inches & 11 ounces—just over half a pound. And many organs, above all the lungs & skin, are very undeveloped. 12)
The number 20 —halfway through, & beginning of a 10 week period whose final few weeks have frequent, though tiny & threatened survival, misleads people to vastly overestimate size & viability. Bans at that point also fuel mistaken belief that halfway there is almost there. 11)
30 weeks is when Celeste Burgess & her mother induced a medication abortion & buried the baby in the backyard. She was sentenced to 90 days in prison & her mother to 2 years. 5)
These miscarriages are often managed at home. If necessary for safety, they can be assisted/completed by medication or D&C (identical to those used in elective abortions, which now sometimes leads to dangerous bans or supply difficulties). 9)
TV portrayals of birth: short & clean labors, a few pushes, & instant recoveries, fuel dangerous expectations like those demanded of Brittany Watts. First labors average 12-24 hours, with subsequent ones a bit shorter, & pushing can take up to 3 hours. (Ask me how I know). 14)
This is the situation outraged people are imagining, & corrupt legal authorities are leveraging, with Watts: a good sized baby easily dropping into a bowl of clean water, & a vicious Black woman calmly & callously flushing her desperately wanted & supposedly viable baby. 7)
Hence they are non viable despite appearing as very small versions babies who easily are. Even 23-26 week fetuses are merely periviable, with very low though gradually increasing survival rates at 8 inches & 1 1/3 pounds to 13 inches & 2 pounds, respectively. 13)
They were charged for the same offense as Brittany Watts, abuse of a corpse, rather than violation of Nebraska’s pre-Dobbs 20 week abortion ban (now 12, in a contested compromise bill which also included restrictions on trans youth health care). 6)
My son of the heart is devastated as his last living child—a 5 year old daughter—just died of COVID. (2 teen sons lost in past). No prep or goodbye cause out of state mom who likely helped cause by carelessness didn’t notify of hospital admission. Of your charity, pray for Reid.
@Esqueer_
@evie_evolving
So much for nuns taking devoted new names—some of them male. No more Sr Mary Teresa. Science teacher may wear a habit but it’s “Yes, Miss Molly McGee.”
Prosecutor said Brittany Watts’ tiny dead fetus was “put into toilet” as if she safely miscarried it elsewhere. It was “put” there, like 99% of miscarriages, by dropping from her tortured mind & endangered body with floods of blood & giant clots.
@saltchuler
@nytimes
@frmikeschmitz
Not even Catholic, entirely. Little problem till quickening = 4-5 months through Middle Ages. And zero problem with herbs to “bring on late periods.”
@rabbiadler
I was equally perturbed when I stayed after mass & heard the adult choir practicing. Could only hear the chorus, so it’s possible the gorgeous haunting tune & our very frequent singing Hallelujah in various worship contexts inspired creation of verses more relevant & G rated.
4 years of actually grooming a young teen, likely followed by a near-child marriage. But it’s lifesaving age appropriate medication—or simply change of name & clothes—that’s sexually abusive.
@DoomScroling
@leesie7172015
Apparently we are supposed to be traumatized by digging through our floods of blood & huge clots to attempt finding embryo. And then what? Take it to a funeral home to be mocked and/or charged a fortune?
@FlorenceHRScott
@c_pezzulo
Analogous anachronicity question: important but often simplistic search for same sex partner saints. “Always slept in same bed”—yeah, like everyone else cause they had neither central heat nor lots of rooms or beds!”
Also often stigmatizing & & exploiting single mothers, especially young ones. “Our birth mother” during pregnancy is surrogacy by another name, often in Catholic or other Christian groups that forbid honestly admitted practice.
@DawnofMercy
@williamjv
This theologian says women want men who pray rosaries, bake brownies, & refrain from sinful misogyny. Won’t say no communion for you, but tomorrow is Saturday—you know what to do!
@girlziplocked
Or their parents should, since huge numbers of removals—especially of BIPOC children—are for crimes of poverty. Even the money currently paid to fosterers would make a huge difference to families.
Christian sibs: this is the reality for countless Jewish temples & synagogues that are virtually unimaginable at our churches. Security personnel, graffiti & vandalism, threats of violence, actual violence. Let’s speak & work & pray to
#EndJewishHate
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Hear ye Catholic Twitter! Learning about Judaism is crucial for understanding Jesus & resisting unintentionally anti Semitic preaching & liturgy. And Jewish Twitter makes it really fun so please start following! My new find today was the awesome
@rabbisandra
& I will add more.
@stormrobinson
@aarondaniel_9
@WMPolice
You are fine with cruel harassment & property damage & implicit threat of violence ignored & encouraged by police refusal to do their job? How about if/when it escalates to physical/sexual violence?
@EruditeElf
Literally just saw this on my morning Paris walk. Maybe if we had justice street signs the child starvers would relent & give kindergartners lunch.
@DoomScroling
Overwhelmingly girls, frequently forced by parents to marry a much older man. Sometimes to cover up unwed pregnancy and/or evade statutory rape charges.
@MiroCyo
I trust you on the science but don’t get any larger significance, especially if it relates to current conflicts/identity claims. Explanation please?
Locations also include pregnant person's bodies. Which could easily make the earliest abortion, or pregnancy loss claimed as their fault--already falsely being used to imprison--capital murder. Which they would love and are clearly setting stage for.
In an 8-1 ruling the AL Supreme Court has ruled that embryos are children.
The ruling effectively gives the same legal standing belonging to born persons, to embryos. Stating that the "wrongful death of a minor act" applies to embryos.
H/T
@mgilles_2000
@CalltoActivism
@33Sail33Comb
And affirmative action for mostly white mediocre men. Women outperform them so qualified gender balance would be 60-70% women. But colleges admit no more than 55%. Preparation for lifetime employment patterns…
@fairylilymyth
Yes non barrier contraception is next. They are already calling pill & EC & IUDs “abortifacients” due to false claim that they prevent implantation of zygote. Which fuels the “conscience exceptions” for pharmacists refusing prescriptions but not being fired.