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Let's normalize suing politicians and prosecutors for ruining people's lives.

Hold up hold up hold up. A woman who couldn’t get an abortion is now being charged for a miscarriage?? That poor woman’s hormones are going through so much because of the intense physical change and she has to be fined, too??? I don’t care what side of the fence you’re on: being charged for a miscarriage is ridiculous.

oh my god being charged for miscarriage is insanity

The idea that women should be charged for having a miscarriage or for aborting the child of their rapist is still wild to me

Ya know... few years ago my dad boasted "well in other countries they send women to jail for miscarriages. Be grateful you live here in the states!!" Now he defends the change cause "it was voted on so you cant change it "

WAIT women who suffered a miscarriage are being fined and are facing jail time?!?! What are they doing to those who cause the women to miscarriage, luke people causing them massive amounts of strees or people who kick/hit pregnant women?!?! My guess is nothing because of corse they go after the victims

I hate recent laws that have made in some states that even if your child has no chance of surviving birth you need to carry it to term if it has a heart rate. Apparently one persons baby had something rare where it didn't develop a skull but they couldn't terminate because it had a heart rate.

I can imagine the sewer slide rates climbing because if someone miscarries there goes their freedom and chances at future employment and home ownership

being a trans man in that situation would be terrifying

Knowing this is something that happens to people is a big factor for me not wanting to have children. Knowing that the miscarriage of a child I wanted could send me to jail.

This isn’t about politics anymore. It doesn’t matter one bit I’m which party you stand. Women’s reproductive rights are far too important to be denied

The Doctor who wrote the ethics board in her case before ultimately being denied to provide care to her due to Ohios laws: "Because of this, mom is at great risk if she completely abruption in terms of hemorrhaging and dying. It does not make sense to me to wait till mom has bleeding to death before we deliver a nonviable pregnancy despite the fact that there is a heartbeat," the doctor wrote.

Seeing how many people don't understand what a miscarriage is in these comments, I now know how so many lawmakers also don't know what a miscarriage is. We really need sex education back in all the schools that have forbidden it.

So basically if you have a miscarriage, the government calls you a murderer, you pay a fine and you get jail time ???? Yeah this country is messed up 💀

As an ohioan I’m TERRIFIED for my 18 yr old to get pregnant.. EVER!

And then there was a news story where a man tried drugging his wife multiple times to cause her an abortion. He only got 180 days in jail :/

Good news! So you know how juries are the ones to actually convict people of murder? A grand jury dismissed her charges and now won’t be further punished for her miscarriage now it is horrible that she was convicted in the first place but at least she won’t have to be in jail for much longer if she hasn’t been released already.

Really struggling to not cry right now. As someone who has had a miscarriage and struggled for years to convince myself it wasn't my fault this cuts me to the core.

WAIT A MIN- WHAT?! NOW MISCARRIAGES ARE ILLEGAL? WHAT THE ****?

This is so crazy, I cant believe this is even an argument that people are making. Addesso, you did a really good job visuallizing this for everyone and how crazy this really is

What i hear everytime someone gets mad at someone who doesnt want to be pregnant and saying "well its your fault, you gotta live with the consequences" is "your child isnt human and deserves to be abused because i forced you to give birth and care for a being you didnt want" BECAUSE most people who get abortions KNOW THEY WOULDNT BE GOOD PARENTS! think about that for a second

Thank you for spreading awareness about this. As an Ohioan I had no idea this was even happening. Everyone please type the pinned comment into your browser and sign it!!

sounds like the doctors did that on purpose

That’s it. I’m so done. I’m leaving America. I am RUNNING AWAY.

Friendly reminder that people who are convicted of felonies lose the right to vote. Abortions are being counted as a felony in some states. If they can argue your miscarriage was self-imposed, they can take your right to vote. Stay safe out there 🫶

The fact that you can get charged for a miscarriage is beyond me

This is proof that women's rights are almost non-existent Its depressing😢

Thank you for raising awareness about this insanity.

I can’t believe usa can act like a developped country while having such horrifying laws, in my country voluntary abortions are legal until 3 months and medical abortions were never even in question that’s between you and your doctor.

Just a friendly reminder that pro life means pro life in EVERY SITUATION. If you say you are pro life, that means if a 12 year old girl is r*ped by her own father and becomes pregnant, and has a medical condition that makes carrying a child to full term deadly, you believe that she should still do it anyway. If you don’t agree with that, congrats, you are PRO CHOICE! This is exactly why I’m pro choice, because the main reason for being pro choice is “You’re taking away a child’s life! They have so much potential!” but so many pro choice people don’t realize how many children’s lives they’re ALSO taking away by being pro choice. Children whose family and friends have developed relationships with them, have talked with them and played games with them… At least when you’re pro choice, no child is getting forcefully taken from their family and friends that have bonded with them for several years and love them. There’s also the whole families forcing their kids not to put grandbabies up for adoption and forcing them to take care of them even if they physically can’t, even though had they not gotten pregnant, they wouldn’t be allowed to adopt a child and raise that child even if they wanted to and had the resources to… thing. It’s all ridiculous imo. Especially when you look at our views on it now versus people like Hollywood movie directors’ views on it back then. Yikes.

More reasons to move out of Ohio once I'm done with college 😃

Recent laws are starting to sound the medieval ones we were so shocked to learn about in history class 😔

This is the world republicans want

I did some research into this case in order to educate myself on it and find out what eventually happened because i was mad on her behalf, and from what I can tell from a few different news sources from all angles, she ended up not being charged. however, she was not being charged for a miscarriage, this seems to be misinformation spreading, she was charged with mishandling after she miscarried (though nore crudely worded), it was found logged in the toilet pipes and other things in a bucket in her backyard; she left soon after for a hair appointment and a friend sent her to the hospital upon her arrival. she had also been to the hospital a few times where she was told she needed to be induced, but left without treatment. I can't imagine what she went through, maybe she just wasnt in her right mind from grief and/or other feelings, but none of us truly know. But if she tried to flush it? Thats seems so wrong in my opinion. I'm sure there are others who have actually been charged directly for miscarrying, which is extremely backward, but it seems like she was not.

I’m so glad you brought awareness to this

And again I have to ask myself: „ *Are the States a real place?* “ I mean I have visited them 3 times already… but still I wonder sometimes if there could be really be a place like this?

'So what are you in here for?' 'I had a miscarriage'

This is ridiculous. The law needs to be changed

About a decade or so ago there was a report of over 300 women in prison for miscarriages. I guess the number will probably increase.

American and their fricking abortion laws. Breh just come to some other place in the world, get it and do not tell others about it.

This is what happens when you try to legislate morality. Prosecutors guess at intentions and innocent people get punished for doing nothing wrong.

😭😭😭 This is the bad place. We have to love and fight. Ive never felt more disgust for this country.

I live in Ohio... and this is absolutely terrifying.

Added my name. This is awful. I'm so ashamed of what my state has done after the reversal of Roe v Wade

I googled her and the grand jury didn’t indict her thank god BUT ALSO SO AWFUL THIS EVER HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE!!

When abortion is a crime, miscarriage is a probable cause. Why don't people understand that? It is a terrible thing. When abortion is a crime, even a missed period is a probable cause. How can we live like this?

Yeah this happened when I miscarried at 8 weeks been told that my ex-fiance's mother thought I purposely killed the baby when she is nowhere near us to know what happened at all

Welcome to America... We love dystopia.

I love how people are surprised this is happening…

Outrageous. This country is shit.

YOU CAN GET CHARGED FOR A MISCARRIAGE??????

i want that governor to go away. Y'all know exactly what i mean.

Times like these make me glad I live in California, we don’t have these laws yet THANK GOD! I don’t understand why people think it’s ok to dictate another persons body, if I don’t want a baby I shouldn’t be forced to have it. Having a baby in America means going through bills upon bills that you have to pay. We either need lower medical bills or rights to our bodies. Can’t force us to give birth and then pay an additional 5-10k (depending on where you live)

People shoud have the rights to abortion

And then people wonder why o one wants to have kids anymore, if someone can be criminally charged for having a miscarriage, I doubt ANYONE is going to want to get pregnant

Hmm, I wonder whether a Male or Female made this law.

I can get behind a time frame for when abortion is illegal, but I hate that abortion is plain and simple illegal in some states and that women can be charged for a miscarriage?!!? Something that she has no control over most of the time? Do lawmakers understand that pregnancy complications are a very common thing that can lead to the loss of the pregnancy?

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The measure we voted into Ohio State Constitution last November legalized abortion up to 21 weeks but *also* abortions of pregnancies deemed unviable by the women's doctor *and* pregnancies that are a life risk to the mother *without* time limits. Our politicians are making every effort to circumvent the will of the people here... and in many areas within the state, law enforcement often follows their lead.

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As someone that has previously had a pregnancy go awry, this is so terrifying. I don't want to die again, but having people that aren't doctors making medical decisions makes that more and more likely 😶‍🌫️

So if I can’t have an abortion, I *must* deliver the baby at all costs or I get fined. Hmmm, sounds unfair at the least and impossible at most. What has our world become 😢

So… 8 weeks- Parents are thrilled to discover they are pregnant! 18 weeks- Ultrasound shows fetal anomalies not compatible with life, but there is a heartbeat, so ending pregnancy is illegal. Parents try to hope for the best; maybe they can spend a few minutes, or even hours, with their baby after birth. 30 weeks- After three months of intense monitoring, the fetus no longer has a heartbeat; the hopes of the parents are crushed. The doctors’ access to the medications to induce labor is severely restricted, so they hope labor begins on its own. 32 weeks- After two more weeks of intense monitoring, labor has not begun on its own and signs of infection from the dead tissue are now setting in. An emergency c-section has to be performed to save the life of the parent. Sequel: Two years later- The parents are now thrilled to be expecting a healthy baby. However, another c-section will have to be performed, as the uterus now can’t endure labor due to the old c-section scar, increasing risks for parent and neonate. But we are “saving the lives of millions of babies”! 🙄

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Hot take: Miscarriage is medically considered a, "Spontaneous abortion," and.. well.. we already know about the abortion laws that exist. If this upsets you, please reconsider your stance on abortions. A different RU-vidr, Illyssa "Illy" aka illymations, narrated a story on how she needed a necessary D&C (dilate and curate the uterus) due to a small tumor/growth that is not considered a pregnancy. Illy almost bled out to death due to their body *desperately* trying to flush out that growth. Some states consider THAT procedure an abortion due to typical procedure involving removal of tissue. As stressed in Illy's video, they could have DIED because of these laws. Please, please look into what your stance on abortion is by considering these different cases. The laws are getting so extreme that women and AFABs are literally RISKING THEIR LIVES because their choice for SAVING THEIR LIVES is illegal. It's genuinely not okay.

America...What the actual fu*k?!

Honestly these shorts make me love my country❤, I took for granted how abortion isn’t even a topic of discussion in politics or society here.

So now people are getting put in jail and fined for something they may not have been able to control?

For ppl that dont know if u can fly to the Netherlands its 27 weeks up here

Modern day witch hunt

Listen, I already know people are going to be saying stuff like "it's a baby, it's still a living thing, it deserves rights, maybe they should have used protection!". Abortion (I'm not too knowledgeable on it) would and can help people who are completely unready for a child. If you are so focused on what's right for the child, consider abortion. What is they are dirt poor? Unable to afford a house even, or struggling to even care for themselves. That child would die either way, or be on the verge of death. Not only that, children, 12 year olds, they can get raped and be too late to get an abortion when it is discovered or something. Yeah, the " baby" may be innocent still or whatever, but the parent should have a choice to have the child. To carry that thing for nine months and then care for a baby and yourself, sometimes even without the physical help of another parent.

More or less she is being prosecuted for giving birth/misscarying in a toilet and then putting it in a bucket outside. So desecration of a corpse…. The fetus was stillborn. This truly is unfair because she was trying to get help but because of how unclear some laws are doctors were unwilling to help due to the fear of being sued, being put in jail or having their license revoked. Unfortunately it was a nurse who was comforting her of her loss that turned her in.

We are now going back to the days where a woman could be charged if her unborn child died. I HATE THIS SOCIETY.

Holy geez,this is so back woods Salem Witch Trial bullshur!

Can i sign the petition if I live in a different country

For the love of god. How is this even a debate

This is actually a tactic that many people seem to use. If enough people had those experiences about one single praxis, you could try to sue those doctors as far as I know.

Land of the free 😒

I'm scared of how things will work for me when I move to Ohio. I hope that it goes smoothly and they don't keep me waiting for weeks.

Mexico looking better qnd better

I wish all of your US lawmakers could have spent time reading about the outcome of the abortion ban in my country, Ireland. Before they made a choice to destroy so many lives they could have read about the lives affected here. At least it'd have been an educated decision.

And they call this a free country 🙄😭 smh america should be ashamed

My sister got pregnant with a baby with the same thing and had an abortion. We're lucky this was about 5 years ago.

What phycopath- Huh? What Excuse me? This real?

as a prolife person like these lawmakers need to see the difference beyween ABORTION ≠ MISCARRIAGE, i may not agree with abortion but at least there are things that i will not stand when taken too far

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"Pro life" legislation at work.

I would kms if i get preggo

It'd be a *damn shame* if women started suing politicians and lawmakers for these traumatic ass laws

comment for the algorithm, because I'm too mad to type anything else rn 🤬

This is becoming the Handmaids tale IRL

Reminder to the commenters to please use gender inclusive language. This does not only affect women, it affects anyone with a uterus.

So scary - this could have been me without access to safe, legal abortion as part of pre-natal care. I live in Australia, but I stay vigilant!!

What absolute genius thought of that wonderful idea?

AS AN OHIOAN WITH A UTERUS PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION!!!!!

Abortion is an option if it is necessary which is understandable, I don’t agree if it is an unreasonable decision but to charge a woman for a miscarriage really?? Like what if it died by itself or something happens which isn’t he fault and they accuse her!! This is so wrong

So... She knew the fetus wasn't going to be viable, and they knew that... And they still want to charge this person. Have I caught the drift?

Yeah 22 weeks you can still go to Illinois New York or California and get a termination. You can generally get one up to 24 to 25 weeks

In that situation- "abortion is only legal up until 21 weeks. It's a good job you came in today, you'll be at 22 tomorrow."