A grand jury in Ohio has decided against any prosecution of a woman who tried to flush her 22-week-old miscarried baby down the toilet.
Brittany Watts, 34, of Warren, Ohio, will not face any charged associated with the controversial case.
Watts reportedly miscarried her baby and then attempted to flush the 22-week-old dead baby’s body down the toilet. When the baby’s body would not go down the pipe, she reportedly left the house for a hair appointment and abandoned the dead baby in the toilet. Watts later scooped the infant out of the toilet, threw the baby’s body in a bucket.
When friends urged her to go to the hospital, a nurse called 911 to report a previously pregnant patient had returned reporting, “the baby’s in her backyard in a bucket.”
A municipal judge found probably cause to charge Watts in connection with how she handled her dead baby.
The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office said grand jurors declined to return an indictment for abuse of a corpse.
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Abortion advocates have falsely presented the case as an attempt by a pro-life state to prosecute a woman for miscarriage.
But as Tierin-Rose Mandelburg of Newsbusters explains, “Miscarriages are when a child spontaneously dies in utero. Abortions are when a child’s life is purposely ended while in utero. No pro-life law makes it so that a woman who miscarries cannot receive proper medical attention or care.”
“Watts is in trouble because she tried to flush her 22-week-old baby’s remains down the toilet, not because she had a miscarriage,’ she said.
