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A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe (apnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Five to c/ohio@midwest.social

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[+] Haphazard9479@lemm.ee -7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Watts miscarrying into, and then flushing and plunging, a toilet at her home; a police investigation of those actions; and Watts, who is Black, being charged with abuse of a corpse.

I dont see what this has to do with abortion law or the fact that she is a black woman.

[–] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Keep reading:

Watts left the hospital on the Wednesday when, coincidentally, her pregnancy arrived at that date — after sitting for eight hours awaiting care.

It turned out the delay was because hospital officials were deliberating over the legalities, Timko said. “It was the fear of, is this going to constitute an abortion and are we able to do that,” she said.

[–] potpie@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The reasoning behind banning abortion is that a very small fetus is actually a full person. That makes abortion murder, and even though something like 20% of pregnancies naturally end in a miscarriage, now every one of them is a potential DIY abortion i.e. murder, so they now must be investigated as such.

As for the racism aspect, well, it's just a sad fact that laws are--in general--applied more stringently and punished more severely for minorities. Of course these new laws would only be no exception.