How big is baby at 22 weeks? At 22 weeks, baby is the size of a coconut. Average baby size at 22 weeks is about 10.9 inches long (at 22 weeks pregnant, baby's size is measured from the crown of the head to the heel of the foot) and 14 ounces.
Prosecutors seem to know that a fetus is a person...
A series of very bad decisions is what she made, one right after the other, starting with getting pregnant and no follow up plan.
AT that point, the dominoes began to fall.
This is not a woman used to making decisions or even being expected to make them.
She does herself no favors by bringing the whole bloody story up for public perusal.
I read when Britany went to the hairdresser, and that hairdresser later called Britany’s mother. At first I thought ‘What a busybody!’, but no, that hairdresser probably saw a woman under great stress who probably still wore bloodstains all over her clothes and skin. That hairdresser most likely saved her life.
The law is an ass.
The loss of a child is more than enough punishment. For the lawyers to use the event for power and money games is immoral.
I wonder what the precedents are in terms of prosecution and conviction when it came to other women in a similar circumstance.
I can’t believe there haven’t been women who showed up at an ER a few hours after miscarrying at a similar point in pregnancy after having tried to handle it on their own and avoiding the ER but having too much bleeding or something that made them go or someone take them.
And then they cannot produce the fetus because it got flushed away.
Except in the case of some of those women the miscarriage process might not have started a day or so earlier and been documented by the hospital and shown to just be a pregnancy having gone wrong the way some pregnancies just do.
In the case of these other women, who is to say they didn’t do something to cause the miscarriage?
And if they weren’t prosecuted for abuse of a corpse, why should this woman be?
Abuse of a corpse? Give me a break — this is what prosecutorial discretion is for. It’s the type of stunt that loses us elections.
There was no abortion, no fetus to be saved. An emotionally troubled woman had a miscarriage, after trying twice to get medical assistance. She panicked, but the fetus had already died of natural causes.
If Republicans want to lose elections for no good reason, this is how to do it.
YEAH???? I just got of the phone with my mom who lives in the state of New Mexico. She was talking about how its now legal in New Mexico to abort a baby all the way up to and even after birth AND the law says that the baby can actually SURVIVE FOR UP TO THIRTY DAYS and still be considered a legal abortion!!!! This is beyond creepy...this is evil manifest.
Why would a nurse call 911 in a hospital?
If she had had the baby aborted and cut up for body parts she would have been okay.
Weird and sick.
Not a word about Jesus
in the story or in the comments.
What are women genetically programmed to do with a miscarriage? Do they throw it away, flush it, call the police, call the doctor, call 911, take it to a hospital, or bury it in the backyard?
And does this change based on size or number of weeks?
Is there an official chart and diagram women get?
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.
At what point is a dead fetus considered a ‘corpse’?
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.