Georgia Police Jailed Woman for Miscarriage and Performed Autopsy on Her Miscarried Fetus.

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Georgia Police Jailed Woman for Miscarriage and Performed Autopsy on Her Miscarried Fetus.

A 24-year-old Georgia woman was arrested by local police last week after having a miscarriage. The woman was found unconscious and bleeding near her apartment building in Tifton, Georgia, only to be charged with “concealing the death of another person” and “abandonment of a dead body.” Police recovered fetal remains in a nearby dumpster after receiving a tip from a witness who claimed to have seen the woman disposing of the remains. Officers then collected the fetal remains to conduct an autopsy.

On Tuesday, authorities released the findings of the autopsy: According to local news station WALB, the county coroner uncovered “no signs of injury or trauma, and the baby never took a breath,” confirming that a natural miscarriage had occurred at about 19 weeks. Yet the criminal charges against the 24-year-old remain. The “concealing the death of another person” charge comes with up to 10 years in prison in Georgia, while the “abandonment of a dead body” charges comes with up to three.

About one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, and there are no legal standards or universal guidelines on how people should dispose of fetal remains. But instead of care and compassion, women and pregnant people routinely face invasive criminal investigations, highly publicized criminal trials, and even imprisonment or the threat of imprisonment for the outcomes of their pregnancies, or how they disposed of remains from a pregnancy.

The Tift County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a request from Jezebel on why the young woman continues to face criminal charges for what the county coroner deemed a natural miscarriage. Nor has the sheriff’s office commented on whether it is standard procedure for individuals in the county to be arrested and jailed after miscarrying, or whether there are steps that people who miscarry must follow to dispose of remains from their pregnancy in order to avoid criminal charges. (This is your regular reminder to never, not ever, talk to the police about the outcomes of other people’s or your own pregnancies, and to take all precautions to protect your medical privacy.)

These backwards abortion laws imposed by Republicans across these red states are effectively criminalizing pregnancy itself. Instead of offering support, they're punishing women for outcomes they can't control. This is what happens when lawmakers treat pregnancy like it's something that needs to be policed rather than a medical condition that requires medical care. It's only going to get worse too.

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Wouldnt wish the south…

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Georgia Police Jailed Woman for Miscarriage and Performed Autopsy on Her Miscarried Fetus.



These backwards abortion laws are effectively criminalizing pregnancy itself. Instead of offering support, they're punishing women for outcomes they can't control. This is what happens when lawmakers treat pregnancy like it's something that needs to be policed rather than a medical condition that requires medical care. It's only going to get worse too.

Say it

REPUBLICANS

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Inb4 Coli reactionaries cosign this shyt.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Inb4 Coli reactionaries cosign this shyt.

they'll really be all for it she and the deceased was black

 

[King Poetic]

The South white politicians and police be on a whole another level

 

[Gloxina]

Police recovered fetal remains in a nearby dumpster after receiving a tip from a witness who claimed to have seen the woman disposing of the remains. Officers then collected the fetal remains to conduct an autopsy.

On Tuesday, authorities released the findings of the autopsy: According to local news station WALB, the county coroner uncovered “no signs of injury or trauma, and the baby never took a breath,” confirming that a natural miscarriage had occurred at about 19 weeks. Yet the criminal charges against the 24-year-old remain. The “concealing the death of another person” charge comes with up to 10 years in prison in Georgia, while the “abandonment of a dead body” charges comes with up to three.


Dumping the baby is the issue
However, this is what women will turn to if they think they will be arrested when going to the doctor/hospital for a miscarriage. Sad sad sad.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Wouldnt wish the south…

It's not the south in of itself breh, but the people running the show.

If it were ran by people who don't operate out of spite and the fact their loser ass great-great grandfathers were pigfukking cousin-lovers, it could very well be on of the GOAT regions of not just the country, but the planet imo

 

[boogers]

obviously nobody wants people throwing babies in dumpsters but would it kill them to have some empathy? the woman lost her child, its not like she killed it. this shyt is just evil

with all the shyt in the news i could imagine that she lost her child and panicked and tried to get rid of the body. this is a tragedy not a crime

 

[ORDER_66]

 

[JuvenileHell]

Republicans are scum of the earth

 

[east]

i'm convinced that @TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY has some sort of alert set up for new threads, for every southern state

 

[CopiousX]

I see nothing wrong here. You can't just be throwing human beings into dumpsters. The minute it came out, it had rights. And it's existence was already documented by the OBGYN and her primary care physician.

Imagine the garbage man coming in the morning to find a squishy infant in a glad Force flex. Dude would have a heart attack, and still end up calling the police on the mother.


Even if you want to pretend that it's not a person, you should at least follow proper disposal and sharpes procedures given the pathogens the fetus could be spreading.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Georgia be havin' a lot of fuçkery

Most of the police bodycam accts I sub to on YouTube, be out of Georgia

 

[east]

I see nothing wrong here. You can't just be throwing human beings into dumpsters. The minute it came out, it had rights.

a 19-week old fetus isn't a human, no preemie born that early has ever survived