(Mar 27 2025, 8:04 AM)Elsacat I posted the substack link on Ovarit.

What are women supposed to do, wait for official law enforcement guidelines on disposing of miscarriages?

(Mar 27 2025, 8:49 AM)eyeswideopen

(Mar 27 2025, 8:04 AM)Elsacat I posted the substack link on Ovarit.

What are women supposed to do, wait for official law enforcement guidelines on disposing of miscarriages?

Just criminalizing women for existing and going through the incredibly common and natural process of miscarriage. Anyone who says the patriarchy doesn't exist is a fool and a liar.

Quote:A 24-year-old Tifton woman faces criminal charges after experiencing a miscarriage, raising concerns about the application of Georgia’s strict abortion legislation.

Quote:Selena Maria Chandler-Scott was arrested and charged with concealing the death of another person and abandonment of a dead body following a medical emergency on March 20. According to police reports, emergency services responded to Brookfield Mews Apartments around 6 a.m. Thursday after receiving a call about an unconscious woman who was bleeding. Medical personnel determined she had suffered a miscarriage and transported her to Tift Regional Medical Center for treatment.

Police claim a witness reported that Chandler-Scott had placed the fetal remains in a bag and disposed of it in a dumpster outside the apartment complex. Officers later recovered these remains, which were sent for autopsy. [...] According to the autopsy, the fetus was 19 weeks old at the time of the miscarriage. There were no signs of trauma and the fetus did not take a breath. The coroner’s office ruled it to be a occurring miscarriage. At 19 weeks, a fetus is about the size of a mango and lungs are just beginning to develop but are not fully developed yet.

[...] Georgia’s “heartbeat law,” officially the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. The law also grants personhood status to embryos and fetuses, potentially exposing women who miscarry to criminal charges if authorities believe they contributed to the pregnancy loss or improperly handled fetal remains.