More miscarriages criminally investigated three years into post-Dobbs abortion bans
The day before Brittany Watts miscarried at home in Warren, Ohio, medical staff at Mercy Health-St. Joseph Warren Hospital told Watts that her nearly 21-week-old fetus had no chance of survival. And without treatment, neither would she.
On that, Watts’ attorneys and those representing the hospital she is now suing agree.
But Watts still ended up in jail two years ago, after leaving the hospital due to care delays and then returning in need of medical care but without a fetus.
While St. Joseph medical staff were treating Watts, a nurse was on the phone with police, speculating that Watts had birthed and then killed a live baby, according to a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year. The suit claims the hospital and individual staff were negligent and lied to police, and that police allegedly violated her civil rights.
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