In what can only be described as a highly political move, all charges have been dropped against an Ohio woman who tried to flush the corpse of her 22-week-old miscarried baby down a toilet.
Brittany Watts, a 33-year-old woman from Warren, Ohio, was charged with abuse of a corpse after she reportedly miscarried into her home commode and attempted to flush the baby’s body before simply walking away. According to reports, Watts had shown up on two separate occasions to a hospital in the days leading up to the incident. The first time, she was told her water had broken but the baby still had a heartbeat, and doctors reportedly mulled over whether they could induce labor given Ohio’s heartbeat law that bans elective abortions beyond about six weeks into pregnancy. Watts eventually left the hospital against medical advice and went home.
Watts went again to the hospital the next day, and again checked herself out without treatment.
Shortly afterward, Watts miscarried her child - now 22 weeks gestation - into the toilet of her home bathroom. An autopsy later showed the baby had passed away before being born.
It’s important to note here, as the media has been wont to point out, that Watts has never been charged for having a miscarriage, nor has she been accused of intentionally triggering it or harming her child when he or she was alive. It’s what she did next that got her in trouble.
After birthing her stillborn child into the toilet, Watts flushed, got herself cleaned up, and went off to a hair appointment. It was only after her friends suggested she needed medical attention that she went back to the hospital, where her story came out.
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At first, Watts reportedly told a nurse that her baby’s body was in a bucket outside the backyard, prompting the nurse to call 911. But when police showed up to Watts’ house, they found her bathroom toilet overflowing with blood and other materials, along with - hold on to your lunch - a premature but fully-formed baby lodged in the commode’s pipes. That discovery led to prosecutors charging Watts with abuse of a corpse.
Which, if this nation cared one whit about the inherent dignity of pre-born children, would simply be a fact. In court, Warren Assistant Prosecutor Lewis Guarnieri sought to clarify the charge wasn’t related to “how the child died, when the child died” but “the fact the baby was put into a toilet, was large enough to clog up the toilet, left in the toilet, and she went on (with) her day.”
But, true to form, leftists are now arguing that Watts, who happens to be a black woman, has been targeted for having a miscarriage, claiming that laws like Ohio’s heartbeat law, which seeks to keep babies from being intentionally poisoned and dismembered in the womb, end up penalizing women for birthing stillborn babies. In their case, Watts’ lawyers argued in court that their client has been “demonized for something that goes on every day.”
Perhaps I’m missing something here, but I’m not sure it’s “every day” that women birth 6-month-old babies into home toilets and try to flush them away with the waste before heading off to run errands. (Though, to be fair, that does happen thousands of times a day at abortion clinics.)
On top of suggesting this is a common occurrence, Traci Timko, one of Watts’ lawyers, pulled out his best Bill Clinton impression and tried to split hairs by claiming the Ohio law on proper handling of a corpse doesn’t actually define what a “corpse” is, saying in an interview, “There are better scholars than I am to determine the exact legal status of this fetus, corpse, body, birthing tissue, whatever it is.”
Just so we’re clear, since Mr. Timko doesn’t appear to be, this is what a 22-week-old baby looks like:
Little hard to confuse that with a blood clot or "birthing tissue," unless we're just willfully denying the facts here.
Despite Watts trying to flush a child just like the one above down a toilet and then going for a cut-and-color, a grand jury on Thursday declined to indict her on any charges. Then again, in a nation in which upwards of a million babies are deliberately exterminated for convenience every single year, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Watts' child was found deserving of exactly zero dignity, respect, or love.
Revolted, yes. But not surprised.
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