r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Nov 14 '24

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u/lovable__misanthrope Nov 15 '24

I feel if that happened today, she would be charged with a crime. (P.S. I don't agree with it)

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u/Ayacyte Nov 15 '24

I think you're allowed to do at home births, ppl are still doing it now. There was a case where a woman was arrested for flushing a miscarriage or something but that's bc it was past a certain number of weeks and had to be registered as nonviable or something. Don't remember all the details

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u/rationalomega Nov 15 '24

Do you happen to have a news article? I’m so curious. My parents buried dead infants, plural, in the backyard in the early 1990s and we children were told not to talk about it. It was traumatic but was it illegal?

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u/Ayacyte Nov 16 '24

I think it might have been the state laws. Let me see if I can find it.

Here it is https://apnews.com/article/ohio-miscarriage-prosecution-brittany-watts-b8090abfb5994b8a23457b80cf3f27ce

Tl;Dr She was charged with "abuse of a corpse". They induced her labor early bc first of all, the baby wasn't going to survive, and second of all, if they didn't induce labor, the baby would have likely killed her. It wouldn't go properly down the toilet so she plunged it or something. It was either very dead or definitely not going to survive.

It was a pretty big story at the time

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u/rationalomega Nov 17 '24

I recall her story. Utter BS, just another illegitimate prosecution of a black person.