Posted on 12/31/2023 5:02:16 PM PST by Morgana
22 weeks is about 2 weeks short of viability. This baby very well could have been saved but for a mentally defective mother.
After 20 weeks, the death of a child in utero is usually called a stillbirth, not a miscarriage, and some states issue death certificates.
The CDC also keeps track of fetal death statistics. Whether or not a death certificate is issued, the CDC records the death and the cause.
She ought to ask for a trial with a jury of her peers
At what point is a dead fetus considered a ‘corpse’?
There are no ‘instructions’. Women have probably flushed fetuses many, many times without ever knowing they were pregnant, or knowing they were miscarrying.
You have my sympathy for going through that, losing two precious children. So sorry. They are with Jesus now.
I take great comfort in the knowledge that I will one day be reunited with them.
For His reasons, God called them home. I accept His wisdom and am grateful He gave them to me, even if it was only for a little while.
I don’t know about charging her with a felony, but a miscarriage at that point, 22 weeks, with the baby at that size and point of development is more of a stillbirth, as someone mentioned, and should be treated accordingly. From the story, the mother seems not quite in her right mind, for whatever reason. Maybe that will be a consideration.
Her stillborn baby needed to be reported and properly taken care of, for her sake physically, emotionally, and spiritually, as well as for others. People around her had a duty to find out what happened to her pregnancy, at that point. And her child’s remains could be found by someone, too, and that shouldn’t happen either. So for whatever reason, she did not do right, but perhaps she was disturbed or just despondent and physically very unwell from the miscarriage.
I take great comfort in the knowledge that I will one day be reunited with them.
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Yes! AMEN, AMEN!!
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