Brittany Watts on being arrested after miscarriage: "I never said...I didn't want my baby."
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2024
- CBS News' Jericka Duncan speaks exclusively to Brittany Watts, the Ohio woman who was charged with a felony after she suffered a miscarriage. Warning: Some viewers may find the contents of this report disturbing.
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Just as this nurse violated this woman’s privacy, her name should be presented to the public.
100%👏🏼 she has NOOOO business being a nurse!! That is scary!! Especially if she’s racist and prejudice on on top of being horrible at her job!!🤬
Yessssss. The nurse should be prosecuted to the fullest. The hospital should and every entity involved should be sued.
Agreed. I don't understand why we're protecting the anonymity of people clearly willing to abuse their authorities and their privileges and break the rules in order to harm others.
The nurse license should be revoked. She violated HIPPA laws
@@kaydale1105you know what’s crazy? At worst, she’s racist and definitely went out of her way to “get her” at the very least, she had unconscious biases that made her think, infer and assume this woman didn’t want her child. Both are foul, and although I don’t think there are more racist people than regular white folks just living… it is scary to think that these INFERENCES and ASSUMPTIONS can be made like nothing, on top of the real racists behavior. It’s like an episode of Get Out. I’m not a mother yet, but I will be getting a Doula, and I need my medical team to be black at this point. Birthing process is already scary enough to add THIS level of trauma and stress to the situation, bump that.
The hospital should be charged for neglecting the patient
No the idiot nurse needs to be charged and have her license stripped
Hands down. This situation could have been prevented .
The thing is the law makes sure the nurse can’t be …..
@@81kikyounfortunately it wouldn’t have been prevented. The entire issue in the first place is due to the fact that this woman was denied the proper reproductive healthcare and was told to come back when she’s on her deathbed. We are maiming, killing and mutilating women because something about fetus? This is dystopian.
@@WowUrFcknHxC When you are a nurse, you are mandated to report certain things and especially if directed by supervisors. You can state your case as to why you disagree with it but ultimately a lot of the times you have no choice in the matter. Sometimes even the wording is dictated.
She needs to sue that hospital back to the Stone Age.
Yesss
AND the AG, personally, and in a civil suit…any way possible, he is no less culpable than the hospital and staff.
The thing is because they had to stick to the law …they can’t be sued
@@RuffioCruzwhat law? What is the bill number that pushes a woman who have misscarriages ?
That nurse should NEVER be allowed to provide care for pregnant women ever again. I hope she sues the lying liar as well as working to change the laws
The nurse that lied to get her arrested needs to be charged with filing a false police report and fired for violating HIPAA.
While I agree the nurse deserves some level consequences this is actually not a violation of HIPAA. People at hospitals are mandated reporters meaning that if they think a child was in danger they have a duty to act and should they not act they might face consequences ranging from losing their job all the way to criminal charges.
@@almanac4150the "child was a none viable fetus that was documented as a risk to the mothers life. So she should be fired and sued for falsely reporting and endangering a client
@@almanac4150her medical records were clearly documented with her gestational period and that the embryos was nonviable.
So, what child was in imminent danger?
This was a false police report which I think either had to do with racism or bias because she assumed the woman was trying to abort her baby. Which both are false.
The nurse is a liability and should loose her license. Nothing the nurse did was protocol it was the exact opposite and out an innocent women through hell.
@@almanac4150 Except there was no child in danger here. There was a miscarried fetus that had already been documented as non viable. So she did violate HIPPA, and she should be fired, lose her nursing license, and be sued. She's disgusting. This woman was grieving, in pain, confused, and scared, and that nurse took it upon herself to put words in her mouth and make it all so much worse.
And sued.
This woman having to go through this so publicly is an outrage.
This is republicans way of life now, get use to it.
It is LITERALLY INFURIATING
She flushed the fetus down the toilet, that's a criminal violation of abusing a corpse. She needs to be held accountable...
@ChadiusMaximus196 you're not that bright. A) it wasn't flushed, that's how they found it and B) where do you think women have miscarriages?? Quite often, over the toilet or perhaps laying in bed then when they feel water, they rush to the toilet. Are you expecting little tiny caskets 3 inches big or? Grow up.
@@Chad_Max Do you recognize when you add to a story? You just added that she "flushed" the fetus. No one ever mentioned that
I'm a medical coder. What struck me here is that someone reported her for using the word "abortion". The legal medical terminology for the procedure she would have (SHOULD have) received is called an abortion. This case is seriously, seriously concerning for the future of women's health.
"Miscarriage" is not a medical term. The correct medical terminology is a "spontaneous abortion". We say miscarriage to be polite in society and to convey that the mother and/others didn't have an active hand ending the pregnancy. So she correctly used the term. It is a shame that we adults are so immature.
That’s exactly what I was just thinking. It is so terrifying to me that these doctors are afraid of the umbrella term, for all these different types of procedures that fall under abortion. It’s not a dirty word, it is simply a medical procedure....
What do you want to bet it was the *same nurse*, and the nurse was 'pro life'
The mother wanted an induction. Didn't get one. She might have mentioned the word 'abortion'-meaning she didn't want to wait for the fetus to pass naturally. They told her 'no', that she had to wait until she delivered,naturally. She decided to leave against their advice. Twice. As expected; she miscarried. But instead of doing so in the hospital; it happened on the toilet. She should have listened to her doctor and stayed. I feel bad for her but she is framing this story in a very contradictory way. Because when I just look at the facts; I can only conclude that a woman had a miscarriage at home after leaving the hospital against medical advice and tried to flush the fetus. As a judge, I would rule for a summary fine of 2500 dollars , issue a waiver so she doesn't have to pay and for the felony to be taken off her record. That way, justice and compassion both prevail and nobody needs to run to Gayle Whinfrey-King😅....
What is happening now is a miscarriage of justice through the machinations of social media and the court of public opinion.
@@roddo1955 but it's perfectly legal to leave the hospital AMA, and it's perfectly legal to suffer a miscarriage. What difference does it make if she miscarried at the hospital or at home, legally? What if it had taken her days or weeks to miscarry? Should she have been legally obliged to stay in the hospital against her own free will for an undefined amount of time? I don't understand what she would be fined for in your hypothetical case. Slippery slope if we're going to insist women who are miscarrying be medically supervised; it could set an overly restrictive precedent.
In 2003 my baby’s heart stop beating. I was less than 3 months pregnant. My OBGYN scheduled a D and C . My heart goes out to this woman. What she went through was horrific.
I'm so sorry you went through that.... we got you. Women around the world got you. Be safe, stay strong, and I hope you got a HUGE blessing in life of I hope you get it soon.
To all the jurors that stood up for this woman. Thank you so much for doing your civil duty correctly and with integrity.
Amen.
Agreed. This could’ve gotten even uglier.
Amen ❤ 🙏
Definitely👍🏽
They used common sense
The woman, Ms. Watts, received no medical attention for 3 days despite being at risk for sepsis, hemorrhage, "at death's door". Yet, the hospital called the police to look for a non-viable fetus, denied the mother care for days while ethics committee debate on laws protecting "fetus". Just a sickening situation. The mother needs justice for how the hospital neglected her health crisis.
She wasn’t in the hospital for 3 days. She went there 2x, leaving both times against medical advice. The longest she was there was 11 hours. It takes time to get procedures approved, especially after the abortion ban issues. The nurse shouldn’t have lied though. But no one refused her care for 3 days and if it was me and I didn’t like the care I was receiving at one hospital I would go to another. You have to stand up for yourself when you know something isn’t right instead of waiting until everything has gone wrong and hiring a lawyer to sue which everyone seems to do lately.
After sitting for 8 hours the first time and 11 hours the next while receiving no care at said hospital. Just stop .
So you feel she should have had the police called on her ? You feel she should have been dragged through the media and prosecuted ?@@hadley407
@@hadley407🌸Is this the nurse that called police???
From my research, powerful people and corporations pay big bucks for fetal stem cells. Not saying that was the hospital's motivation, but...
The fact that she was in the medical field as well and they still treated her that way shows a lot
This can also be a great conversation on how women and women of color in general are treated in the medical field. Women’s concerns are often dismissed due to medical bias. Our pains aren’t taken in great consideration as men’s are and even women aren’t given enough time to recover as they are expected to be back up and running.
I’m hoping now that Ms Watts nightmare is over, changes to the medical community can be made to better service both men and women.
She was a medical receptionist (non-clinical role) but yes I get your point.
The laws are totally outrages. This woman could have died and then to call the police on her after she has lost her baby. Just sickening!!
It is quite clear to me that all this confusion could have been avoided if the nurse didn't lie. She knew this woman's medical info and that it wasn't a viable birth. The nurse needs to be held accountable for lying.
The dispatcher even asked the relevant question: was the baby born alive? She knew exactly the implication she was making by not answering honestly
@@taylor3950 The dispatcher asked if the baby was alive, not if it was _born_ alive.
Exactly the definition of an abortion, it happened, innocent woman
@@alvallac2171 using ‘was’ rather than ‘is’ in this context implies that the questioner is referring to the past. ie at the time of delivery (or shortly thereafter)
@@alvallac2171What the nurse said was a lie by omission. Watt’s medical records would have shown the pregnancy wasn’t viable, she was miscarrying, and could not have delivered a living baby. The nurse made it sound like she delivered a living baby, but left it to die in the toilet because she didn’t want it. The nurse lied.
that nurse should be prosecuted, absolutely disgusting, I can't even comprehend a person doing that to someone who just lost their baby. racism is unspeakably evil
They can't be prosecuted when it's the law now because of the word abortion they were so called in the "right"
I absolutely agree with you 💯
@elizabethm1882 there's definitely something wrong with that.
The nurse and the risk assessment department was protecting the interest of the hospital. If anything the patient can take action against the law of the state. But being a poor woman I don't see it making any sense for her to do that. It is really sad that women who are going through these difficult times in their lives have to be publicly disgraced all because politicians want control of their lives.
@@user-lq6fn1fr1i they followed the law because if they didn't the hospital would have been sanctioned and there would have been a whole lot of trouble for them. These laws have made things difficult for everyone involved. They were caught between a rock and a hard place. That being said they violated the patient's privacy, but to them that's negligent compared to if the hospital were to lose their credentialing to operate in the state. Just sad.
My son died at 39 weeks I have epilepsy so this risk is high for me.
I loved my son and wanted him.
We should be allowed to mourn not be treated as criminals
So sorry for your loss!😞🫂💔🥀
❤❤❤ so sorry for your loss
This just gave me flash backs of how in 2020 temple university hospital in north Philadelphia told me i had a placental abruption but kept giving me magnesium and sending me home. I went twice bleeding and in pain and they would not help me. I decided to go to Jefferson downtown where they immediately rushed me back and told me that my family had 30 minutes to get there because I'd need an emergency c section. These hospitals purposely neglect us. They know what they're doing and the nurse needs to be in jail and fired
The nurse exaggerated with lies and tried to sabotage Brittany’s life in an instant. The nurse should be ashamed and punished. I’m so sorry for your loss Brittany 🙏🏻
She shouldn't work in medical ever again. Who else has hurt?
I left a like and a comment so that the RUclips algorithm will show the video to more people. 😰
The nurse that called should have her license revoked. She has no business calling the police, that is up to the physician, NP or a PA. She is a DISGRACE to those of us who genuinely care for our patients.
The nurse should be punished asap.
@@glendaharvey2676the nurse is gross but it’s actually the hospital itself that is the problem. This is exactly why hospitals should not be run by churches. This happens at all churches run by the Catholic Church or evangelist churches. You have to read the fine print. If the hospital is one that has a policy to not provide abortion services, then they have a skewed version of what abortion and miscarriage (natural abortion) is.
Rubbing Brittany's back saying "It'll be okay" knowing the police are coming is nasty work.
Are u surprised?????
Why'd she lie to the mother?
Devil’s work.
Such poor medical care to protect a law. Horrific. “Just trying to do their job” is ridiculous. They should have kept Brittany in the hospital and helped her instead of turn8ng her away.
Yup.
She should sue for mental cruelty.
I hope the nurse was fired. As if losing her baby wasn't enough...smh. This lady is doing important work. Bless her!
The men anchors should have not commented on this.
They would not have worked this hard to find her if she was lost.
They worked harder to get her arrested than to give her medical attention.
I absolutely agree with you.
❤❤❤100% if she went missing, we wouldn't have seen her face on the news.
That's what I am hearing. Medical staff should start wearing body cameras and audio. It's just disturbing how they love to overcharge for care and to ruin lives by getting you arrested.
Absolutely agree Brittany needs to sue for this bc the babies heart was “faint” then they wait 11 hours to induce her wth that should have been an immediate c section the moment that baby’s heart was faint and she was bleeding. This is absolutely disgusting of this medical personnel that swore to God to care well for peoples health. I feel so bad for her loss then this happened to make it worse. Those who saw her need to be disciplined and that nurse sued.
You're absolutely correct.
She needs to sue the hospital. The nurse who called the police needs to be held accountable as well for lying.
So true. These people need to be held accountable for putting this woman through this!
We deserve to know her name. She clearly doesn't believe in a woman's right to privacy. Let's give her Ohio law at its finest! Their law has taken away a woman's right to privacy, let's show her the devastating results of the law she couldn't wait to implement!
I can understand why she didn't want to see it. Because once you see it, you can't unsee it and it will haunt your dreams and nightmares. Keeping you wide awake. It can haunt you forever. 😢😢😢
Right, like I've had people that couldn't even look at their toenail that's been torn up. And you can't tell me it's not intimidating or scary to look at the child you just lost knowing that it might horrify you for the rest of your life. 😭
Amen 😢😢😢
I would be scared to look as well...but it would be my dead baby and I wouldn't leave it in a toilet but put it in a blanket. That said, you can never know how you will react in a situation that is so stressful and what she did was probably better for her recovery, as she knew the child was dead. Recovering the body from the toilet would be horrific and something nobody should be forced to do by law. This is what happens when old men are making laws for everybody...sometimes they make no sense and are cruel. I hope something will change.
@@kris2455 Some of us are stronger and some of us are weaker. But if it had not been for her leaving it in the toilet, she probably still be in jail right now. Which is crazy in itself that she was even there, in the first damn place.
Mercy Health Hospital needs to compensate Watts for millions and the nurse who reported her needs to be charged for a false police statement and for HIPPA violations and fired.
The nurse was misleading when she called authorities. This doesn't surprise me. Wording is everything. This nurse was more concerned with getting this woman in trouble than her career ethics.
Yup 😢😢😢 and medical racism gives us a hint as to why. It’s so heartbreaking and scary for all other Black women to even know these are the kinds of things that may happen to them when they seek care 💔
as usual
@@alla.ewhy is everything always about race. What can my sister blame her mistreatment at the hospital on since she’s white?
@@d4ever649 you know why race is brought up in these important conversations? Because we live in a racialized world. We live in a racialized world, where your colour does statistically impact your outcomes in healthcare (ever heard of maternal mortality?), and so many other facets of life. Your sister, who is white, can blame it on incompetence. But the existence of that in the context of white people, doesn’t take away the fact that there are other factors that impact experiences of Black people. Please educate yourself and don’t walk around with ignorant statements like “why is everything about race?” in 2024. You know why race is brought up and you’re choosing to ignore it, but don’t come on this RUclips @ me like there’s educating I still need to do for you in this year of our Lord.
@@d4ever649 because her race does play into why the nurse called the police. Black paitents are more likely to be criminalised when seeking medical attention stop pretending that race isn't a thing and that people don't notice each others races. The nurse demonised her instead of seeing her as a victim who had a miscarriage why would you even call the police on her she clearly did not see her as a patient.
The nurse needs to be exposed.
I could not agree more. Nurses are supposed to be supportive, not calling the cops for something that can happen during pregnancy.
I once had a nurse practitioner refuse to sign an ESA letter because she said I was too depressed to have a dog, so instead of just having me find someone else to write it and work with, she called my housing and told them about the dog I would be picking up later that day. I had to spend thousands on boarding and a new psychiatrist to get a letter. I had brought him home the day of her appointment and by the next day management was calling. I ended up reporting her because she broke HIPPA by talking about my case and medical history to the housing manager. She was fined $19K in the state of CA. These nurses need to be reported to the board.
@@Brainjoy01there's a certain type of person that seems to end up in nursing quite a lot; they always know what's best, they love their place in the hierarchy, and they go way out of their lane if they're on a crusade. Depending on how smart they are, this type of person is either brilliant or a next-level busybody Doris. There's a lot of Doris's, and this nurse seems like one.
Fired, sued and then jailed
EXPOSED? She needs to be fired!😡😡😡😡
Why wasn’t the nurse fired for false informing? Or arrested?
This happens ALOT
@@oops-iam708 It shouldn’t. This is exactly what’s wrong with America.
The nurse needs to lose her right to practice nursing. Ms. Watts needs an attorney to sue for damages
The fact that this woman's personal health issues have been exposed to the public is a violation of HIPPA. The nurse and the risk management violated HIPAA. They were trying to protect the hospital, that's all they were concerned about, what would happen to the hospital!
Exactly!
That is basically what it comes down to in the end. It was a decision to protect the hospital.
That’s what risk management does.
@@MNP208 No. This is dystopian. Risk management cannot seek out prosecution to prevent a liability when no wrong doing is even detected. Wtf is wrong with you?
It's illegal, absolutely.
The nurse broke every law of morality and decency and integrity.
She sounded the alarm when a living baby last they knew was unaccounted for.
@@michaelcutcher8592 lies the docrters told them several times her baby was not viable menaing it wont live they were simply waiting fro her body to expell the fetus and when that doesnt occurr it makes the mother in danger of dying.. the sick part is th eboard even talked about waiitg until the mom was on deaths door. they already knew the baby is not able to live.
@@michaelcutcher8592no…it was clear, not only in her records, but by the number of weeks and the fact that she’d been actively miscarrying for *days*. That woman lied on her patient and had the records to verify that the patient simply had a miscarriage.
@@michaelcutcher8592they knew the baby wasn't viable. She even continued with that in the 911 call, but they didn't show it here
@@michaelcutcher8592 she knew damn well it wasnt a living baby. They had already told that woman her baby was not living.
She needs to sue them for lack of duty of care.
That nurse should loose her license. Watts had been told multiple times that she had been told the pregnancy was not viable. Smdh!
I've been a nurse for 21yrs. I cannot imagine calling police on my patient for this. This is inhumane and the absolute antithesis of what encompasses my nurse's oath. That nurse is a disgusting display of what no nurse should ever do.
For the record, the nurse was told to do this by the hospital administration. Miscarriages AREN'T abortions, although both words mean exactly the same thing. That is the problem.
@@DeaconRichardJones61inTheLord Its the nurse showing faux compassion while contacting the police...if she was white, would this nurse have done the same. Its a fair question.
The bad thing is the nurse didn’t say Ms Watts miscarried at home. She clearly said she “delivered a baby” which was a total lie. She knew or could’ve gotten Ms. Watt’s records being she was there before. This whole case should’ve never happened to Ms. Watts.
@iyamwhatiyam547 Again, she was told to call the police. I can't say something about her emotions or compassion through a phone call. I am not good at playing God. Maybe you are. Now, if you like to speak on her untrue statements, the young black woman said were lies, then we have something that could be misleading. But the nurse did what she was told to do. If anything, the hospital administration is more liable than the nurse.
@@iyamwhatiyam547Yes, she probably would have. I have lost 2 babies. One at 5 months gestation and one at 3 months old preemie and was treated horribly both times and I am a white woman! If it was in this day and age (mine happened over 20 years ago) then the police probably would have been called because of all this anti abortion stuff going on in some of these states like Ohio! And one of mine happened in TX (similar to her situation. 20 weeks. Leaking amniotic fluid. Fetus not viable). If mine had happened in TX today instead of in 1998 u best believe they would have called on me too! It is because we are women and we aren’t taken seriously in our medical system! I don’t trust them anymore after my experiences over the years!
She used the medically correct term - inducing after a miscarriage is indeed an abortion - but because politicians have demonized that term, the hospital treated her as a criminal. Outrageous, like the rest of this horrible horrible story. And that nurse deserves to be arrested for a false report.
Yes. I had a pregnancy where the baby died but I did not miscarry. So they had to do a procedure that the nurse told me was basically an abortion. It’s very dangerous to leave a dead fetus inside a woman. These ppl disgust me!
Exactly. I’m like that is an abortion. A medically induced abortion. Republicans and pro-lifers have demonized the word. I wish they cared as much about the children that are already here as they do unborn babies.
She sounded like a Karen on the police call. Brittany tried to do the right thing.
miscarriages are medically called abortions. when i had my miscarriage the paperwork said natural abortion on it
I used to work in high risk OB.
Every early pregnancy loss is medically termed "abortion". It may be a "spontaneous abortion", where the pregnancy passes on its own. It may be a "missed abortion", where the embyo dies but the woman's body doesn't pass it. And so on.
This woman may have done better going to a hospital without a religious affiliation.
These laws are so horrible for women, and she should never have been put through any of this.
Her first hospital visit should have resulted in her being induced. The risk of infection and hemorrhage increased every hour they delayed her treatment. Ruptured membranes alone will result in infection unlrss the womaan delivers with a day or so.
I would like to see her sue both hospital and the state.
The nurse who lied should be charged. Did she not read the patient chart to get a full understanding of the history.
The only thing the hospital did right was the initial notification to the patient of her condition.
The state says 22 weeks. She was at 21 weeks. She waited 8 hours then 11 hours knowing what the hospital told her. Why wasn’t she treated immediately?
I was in a similar situation. The doctor told me something similar to this case and the hospital took care of me immediately. The hospital staff was comforting; exceptional group of people. It hurts to think she went through this by herself and with a crappy group of people maneuvering against her behind her back😮😢
Having a miscarriage is not a criminal act. Where was the compassion for this woman who lost her pregnancy? The nurse should be criminally charged, not the patient. This case definitely was based on racism and misogyny.
She wasn’t charged for the miscarriage….she was charged for leaving the baby in the toilet.
@@goodpumpum656 what was she supposed to do. They told her it wasn't viable. She got crappy medical treatment.
💐
@@goodpumpum656 Did you just say she left the baby in the toilet? Your deceptive language implies she carefully placed a full-term living baby in the toilet, when she passed a bloody miscarriage that she did in fact flushed.
@@goodpumpum656I can see where literally you see that as an explanation. But let’s live in the real world for a sec, not a law book. Would you pick up your unalive child after a miscarriage? I think you’d be in a lot of shock and most likely not make “the lawful” decision.
The hospital should be ashamed of themselves. Im sorry this happened to you Brittany. Please know women around the world support you.
And men.
Flushing a baby down the toilet even if dead..not right
@pinkybeasts girl!!! You don't listen you know dam well she didn't flush no baby down the toilet.
@sherethadaniels473 go check for some reason the media make you dumb. Go see how a 6 month baby looks.
@@pinkybeasts wow, I pray that you receive the love, compassion, support, and medical care you deserve if you ever find yourself in this horrible situation. Continuing to demonize this woman for an act of God is beyond cruel. Especially, since you are literally slandering this woman with lies. Women who do not desire to be mothers, would not continue to go back to the hospital in a useless attempt to try to save their child. They sent her home every time because they were more worried about being prosecuted than they were about her life or the life of that child. Your distain is misplaced.
Miscarriages are traumatic enough and it is unfathomable that this woman was then charged with a crime.
This is absolutely vile anyone in any sort of power would try and hold this woman accountable for any sort of crime...😢💔
This is unbelievably outrageous. She was abused at the hospital by being ignored repeatedly and then to be arrested after a miscarriage she could not medically avoid is totally unacceptable. Even if she had said she didn’t want the baby, so what? So now women are going to be arrested for what we say and think?
She was arrested on suspicion of desecrating a corpse! NOT for having a miscarriage! 🤦♀️I know the banner on the news footage suggested that but if you listen to the story you will discover that the banner was a lie.
@@suzannemartin6817 It is extremely common that fetuses fall into the toilet during a miscarriage I can name at least 3 women that this has happened to 2 of them from my church over the age of 32. The fact that she was charged with abuse of a corpse when this is something that ALL medical professionals know happens on a daily basis screams malpractice. This is not a rare occurance its been happening everyday for thousands of years. So a nurse calling the police on something you learn in 5th grade health class is assanine. And they took the toilet with the fetus to the M.E. as if she murdered a 21 week old fetus that fell out of her body treating it like she delivered a full term baby.
@@shannonmiller6716 You do understand that she didnt flush it right? The point is women have miscarriages on the toilet all the time. They go to the bathroom because they are hemorrhaging, they don't lie in a bed then they call and ambulance or rush to the hospital as they are one the brink of death and need immediate medical attention. They don't turn around and retrieve a fetus while bleeding uncontrollably and they don't go to jail for not bringing it with them to the hospital. Furthermore a 5 month old fetus is the size of a papya it would not have flushed anyways.Are you really that simple?
She didn't try to flush a fetus😮. I had a miscarriage at home and it was a similar situation except I never made it to the hospital. Fortunately this was years ago and when asked what happened I gave my explanation and the paramedics went to retrieve my baby. I was not able to tell the medical team initially and they called the father of the baby who discovered they were in the toilet. What was I or anyone to do? Scoop the corpse up and take with me while barely conscious? The nurse was a terrible person for rubbing her back while also reporting her.
She never said she tried to flush the baby. 🤨
The nurse needs to go jail. The nurse isn’t naive to the proper medical terms and made it sound like the woman delivered a full term baby and left it to die, and refrained from mentioning that the baby was already dead, non viable. The nurse needs to be in JAIL
There should be some major consequences as she has practically destroyed Ms. Watts life. She may never be able to get any insurance, a job, a home, because she's put Ms. Watts life on blast before the world. Nasty, evil person.
LITERALLY
Absolutely disgusting of the nurse. If she wasn't sure she should have checked with colleagues. If this mother was guilty surely she would not have returned for medical treatment at the hospital. 🙄
Narcissists are showing their heads in the medical field.
Imagine knowing something is wrong with your baby, being neglected while in a hospital, losing your child and THEN being charged for losing your baby. Shame on that hospital for negligence and everyone involved in her being charged
Who is the nurse? Because she is part of the problem. She needs to be fired and her license stripped. Immediately
I agree! If she hadn’t added in the “she said she didn’t want it” part then I would say okay maybe she’s trying to follow the law, whatever. But the fact that she said that tells me her motives.
did anything ever happen to the nurse she should be heldresponsible
So disgusting to hear men make the laws and defend the decisions , knowing all along they will never have to be in this horrific situation.
The most annoying part of this video is watching the women discuss this matter at the end and a man comes in and says “they were just doing their jobs”. They’re always “ just doing their jobs” and if the case didn’t get the attention that it got, that woman would’ve been locked up.
How hard would it have been for nurse "Snitch" to have a conversation with Britney to explain that the fetus needed to be collected or evaluated and properly buried/cremated whatever and work together with her to get that done rather than going behind her back and calling the police to treat her like a criminal?
That nurse who called the police will regret what she did. Liar
The fact that the men on this show tried to justify the chain of events is disappointing but not surprising. Shame on them for Sympathizing with those who carry out abusive laws against women.
Yes, I noticed that. Very odd, this is why most men shouldn't get to vote on women's reproductive issues, they don't have a clue. And the "nurse" was clearly a conservative who let her political views impact her ability to do her job. The paperwork shows the baby was gone or dying the 1st day she was at the hospital.
I filed a complaint with CBS, just Google CBS Mornings complaint and go to "Show Feedback" to do the same.
Agree!
Absolutely agree. So annoyed.
I think they were trying to point out that this likely wouldn’t have happened had the Ohio government not made abortions illegal. This is largely about the Dobbs decision but clearly there are sexism racism social and economic status and religious components.
It's disgusting how she was treated, the nurse needs to be held accountable for her lies.
As a healthcare professional, it is sickening to my core to imagine a peer rush to being so vile and involve police, in such a delicate moment that requires the utmost empathy, compassion and protection for another human being. Blessing to Tiffany Watts.
I have seen this more often than I care to have learned. Some ER nurses have some white knight syndrome instead of helping a patient. I’ve seen nurses ask cops if they should pull syringes out of the sharps box for evidence against people who came in coding & ODing. Some nurses would rather be about the law then give compassionate care for someone in a crisis. This woman was in a crisis and THEY did treat her like a criminal. Never go to religious non-profits. They openly talk about their religious discrimination against women s health. Go to a state hospital.
That is SO HORRIBLE, sue the STATE for billions!
Republicans run that state. It’s the law now.
And the hospital and the police department
Cu in court!
@@stevenpatterson8888the nurse, the hospital and the state!
The nurse should be fired, sued and then jailed
This is disgusting. I hope Brittany Watts sues the daylights out of that hospital for what happened to her.
i hope she sues that nurse into intractable poverty
I hope so too, and get the nurse fired.
She was wrong for leaving the hospital against medical advice. Not once, but twice.
@@arfriedman4577 Have you ever been to a hospital and waisted hours without attention? I have, precisely because they did not take me seriously, just like they did not take her seriously and pretty much ignored her at the hospital, probably taking other patients before her. She came back the next day and it was even worst. That is not good medical care. She could have also died waiting for care, and what would have been their/ your excuse?
@TheSimmpleTruth if she died in their care, they would have grounds to sue.
I had kidney stone. I waited for hours and then they admit. I' was sent home from hospital after 4 days because they didn't know what happened to my kidney stone. After a few hours home, I caught it.
I've waited in the hospital a few other times for hours because other patients were more important than my issue.
Have you ever been in ER? It seems no to me because you're asking me this question.
The hospital was negligent, then a Karen calls the police when she finally miscarries due to their negligence?!! Charges should be brought against the hospital and the nurse. This is a critical issue for Black women because we are exponentially more likely to be systematically, criminally mistreated and then be criminalized for the impact of that mistreatment. This is BEYOND INFURIATING!
She had to experience the trauma of a miscarriage, then have that compounded by the trauma of being criminalized.
That nurse should have been arrested and charged instead of Ms. Watts. That nurse should be arrested and charged for reckless endangerment false statement and violating hippa.
That nurse should be charged with violating her patient's privacy and lying about the situation. That was malicious behavior.
This is what banning abortion started. However people think they'd determine to charge people?
The NURSE who called the police on her AND the DA need to be held accountable
She put those words in her mouth while rubbing her back and pretending to console her. What a wicked women! She had no empathy for this woman who lost her child.
Cruel and unusual punishment. What was done to this woman was disgusting. Bless you, Girl.
The RN needs to be named. How cruel to do what she did to such a vulnerable woman. I want that nurse's name.
She gets off on inflicting this sort of pain in her patients. Give it time she'll be in the news again as a headline if how she abused her patients.
Absolutely. That call was demonic
Omg how could they treat her so bad?!Cops even removed the toilet for evidence! How humiliating for this innocent and grieving women!
@grose2272. . .Yep, this was humiliating especially since the medical professionals told her the fetus was "non-viable" which means "not living/not forming/not developing/not with life."
😾 She’s still guilty of not using birth control 💊💊💊
@@Orang315 She wanted this baby. This was a miscarriage.
*woman (singular)
women = plural
It's like "man" vs "men," but with wo- added on the front.
@@alvallac2171 😾 Wtf does that mean ? 🧠 no 🧠
The nurse should lose her license and should also be sued and her name released.
This nearly happened to me at just 5 weeks. I was 39. I refused to let them semd me home 🏡a practically begged for treatment which saved my pregnancy. I now have a healthy beautiful 7 year old son. ❤
The nurse should be held accountable because that language is probably why she was arrested.
The language, aka LIE ,was absolutely why she was arrested
But why isn’t the nurse getting charged for filing a false police report??? She saw her medical records and must have known the fetus wasn’t viable, she lied to police when she said she didn’t know if the baby was alive point blank and put this woman through so much hardship when she was already trying to cope with the loss of her child.
Because their are people on government trying to set president for this
Or she didn't, because it wasn't actually noted... they did that to my sister once - didn't even note doctors orders in her file...
@@aprilmoore2917considering how upset the patient clearly was (so much so that she needed to be comforted), she wanted her pregnancy to work out but was put in an impossible situation
@time2livelife I think she shouldn't have framed it as a term - for it wasn't. But if it wasn't TERM, the nurse wouldn't have known, if it wasn't in her file. If she didn't believe the baby was not term, even though the mother had informed her, she was going by what was not defined for her in the file. I personally would've chased down the mother's prior visits, for surely the mother pointed out that she needed a D&C earlier, and they kept dogging her... - I would've found that odd, if it was my patient, and she'd been needing a D&C for days. .. it would've cleared her doubt as to whether it was a term baby or not.
I mean there's a small possibility it might have been alive for a short while after birth. So she couldn't say for sure it was dead. But it was definitely a lie by omission. Her answer should have been something more like "it is not expected to be alive". Well honestly the question should not have been asked because the nurse should not have been calling authorities.
This is outrageous! This story needs more national attention.
This is so disheartening. The ob/gyn told her it was not a viable pregnancy. The woman went to the hospital 3 times for the hospital to do nothing. And, the nurse that called the police….😡
This is the story of a woman who was absolutely neglected and criminalized due to racial discrimination. Her medical providers failed and abused her. This is a mother who suffered the loss of a child that she wanted and she had to endure a traumatic delivery alone with no one supporting or advocating for her through this trauma and grief. What a strong person to want to use her grief to help support others to prevent it from continuing to happen.
Very well said.
She should file a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the police department, and that nurse and the hospital.
No, not the police cause they didn't know the full story its the hospital at fault
@@avionwhaley6374 No the police arrested this woman when no laws were even broken. She wasn’t 22 weeks yet. Not to mention they saw what was in the toilet. They knew it was in no way, a baby that was alive. Speaking as someone who had a miscarriage at 21 weeks. It looked like a big clump of blood.
She should sue the nurse for defamation of character
People don't realize you can sued For defamation of a person charter this is civil also
This crazy she was let down she was carrying her baby Inside of her for months that let anyone know she wanted her baby,
I hope she's suing the hospital and that nurse for defamation and endangerment
I wonder how much the hospital charged her while doing nothing for days. Was she paying that nurses wages while she called the police?
This is shocking. Brittany suffered unnecessarily harsh treatment from the nurse who massaged her and then called the police. As a health professional nurse and a woman, the nurse let Brittany and all women down. Sisters, let's look out for one another!
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@steeamviolet there food as bad nurses who take there job what is as some don't as clinics as hospitals as whatever ur going for .as some talk stuff of but u end up seeing who as what degree not degree is just perso u are 😮
@@andrewmartinez2726What?
I remember going to the hospital with a friend whose daughter had fallen and the nurse pulling us aside and telling us she had to call the police because it’s her job to but not to worry to explain what happened to them, it was scary but we understood she had to do her job and thankfully it was all fine, she was such help. ..
@@mamia9659the difference is they told you. Plus the wording the nurse used to dispatched was misleading and poorly communicated. Saying she had a baby on the toilet and she doesn’t want it; is different than saying she miscarried on the toilet a 21 week old non-viable pregnancy. I was advised to call you on how to proceed with this. Very different context and she used the wording she wanted to get the reaction she wanted. The nurse had her medical records, she knew the full story and mislead to sound like a woman had a full term baby on the toilet and left it there. The whole thing is disgusting and terrifying to any pregnant woman in Ohio of what they may face if they miscarry.
Publicize the nurse’s and risk manager’s name! They want be involved, they can go all the way.
100000000 percent agree!!!!!
Agree!!!!!
Sue the Nurse, Hospital and Police dept. America shows how disgusting its Institutions are everyday.
This was so shameful. Who arrests a woman for having a miscarriage?
‘Merca!
8 hours first day, 11 hours the second day... They wanted her to bleed out. This is a disgrace. Then they took 6 hours to decide to induce her even though they knew the baby had already passed. Smh
They wanted her to birth or expel the fetus in the hospital.
To avoid it happening in a toilet that she later flushed!
Yeah this is crazy
That’s hospital time for you
They wanted her to die along with her baby. They are probably responsible that her baby even died because it's possible that they could have saved the baby. (She/he still had a heartbeat when the mom Brittany Watts, went into the hospital)
The people who handled her case need to lose their medical licenses, and be jailed.
They just didn’t want to perform an abortion on her because they were afraid of the law. Abortion is women’s healthcare. It is needed as a viable option for women to survive in some cases. Women do not have to die in this day and age
This shakes me to my core. How awful that they criminalized this woman who clearly sought medical attention.
Decaying tissue from a fetus that was deceased for a week or so, mixed with all the blood and other tissue from the placenta, would be a horrific sight for a traumatized, grieving mother. What on earth did they expect her to do, scoop it up with a ladel and take it to the mortuary in a zip lock bag? This is beyond cruel...
Great interview! It's awful what Brittany suffered. I hope she has some recourse from the hospital as well.
If Brittany proceeds with a lawsuit, that nurse needs to be the first on the docket.
You could literally hear the excitement in the nurses voice when she was calling 911. Absolutely sick. I worked in healthcare for 1 year exactly and ran for the hills as soon as I could. I would NEVER go back into healthcare because it is full of nurses who behave exactly like this nurse.
Do you have the link?
i hope that nurse who reported her is disgusted with herself
What a miscarriage of justice. She should have never been arrested. Shame on the hospital, nurse and our legal system.
Glad they released the audio of the nurse. Disgusting. Just evil.
Women of all colors and backgrounds should unite for better healthcare and to protect women that found this category.
And do what that hasn’t happened in the years of public protest? It’s not the government who’s going to change jack squat. In fact, it is the government setting up these archaic laws. It’s the stupid voters voting in stupid people that keep this hellscape burning.
We do ! But the systemic racism is the issue!
Lol
That is a fact
good luck with that!
As a 37 year old pregnant woman, this draconian, unethical treatment is terrifying!
Listening to the call from the nurse pisses me off to high heaven! I hope this nurse gets sued or the hospital AND the city!!!!!
Coming from a mum with history of miscarriages this is so heartbreaking. I applaud her strength because the trauma of losing a child is beyond heartbreaking and yet she was treated less than an animal.
Is it! Republicans seem to love it
@@chrisgrace81 she wasn’t treated at the hospital. She waited 8 hours the first stay and 11 hours the second stay. Women miscarry and give birth on toilets literally all the time and she probably wasn’t in the best state of mind after everything
@@chrisgrace81Many women miscarry into toilets without even knowing that they were pregnant. Miscarriage into a toilet is very common.
A 21 week baby is a large baby not a small fetus that can pass in a toilet. It’s technically a stillbirth. They should have had a physician on explaining. So much misinformation. The woman was not prosecuted, which is right. But the hospital also did the right thing because they did need to find the body.
@@chrisgrace81 "According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, babies born before 23 weeks have a survival rate of just 5% to 6%. Of those that do survive, 98% to 100% have substantial complications and/or disability" This was a miscarriage. They handled it very poorly. If she needed to report, then she didn't do so properly. Totally misrepresented the situation to the police and did not convey important information in the patient's file. Such as a non viable fetus, mother was already in before , likely a spontaneous abortion... They totally failed here. She was so eager to present a mother who killed her baby when everything pointed to the opposite.
There was no confusion legally at all. Ohio’s law was that abortion was banned at 22 weeks except for life saving measures. She was 21 weeks pregnant. She was medically neglected and to cover up that neglect they had that nurse call the cops on this poor woman who had to go through this craziness. She went to the doctors, waited hours in agony and grief and nothing was done for her. There was even an ethics committee that told them to do something before she died and there was nothing done. I hope she wins against that hospital because that’s insane. Also with that nurse, there was no confusion. She blatantly lied. She made it sound like the mother was cruel. The only one confused in the situation was the grieving mother.
To me it is glaring that she spent 19 hours over 2 days and got no feed back on what was happening. Just left waiting and making her own assumptions. Shameful!
To me it is glaring that she spent 19 hours over 2 days and got no feed back on what was happening. Just left waiting and making her own assumptions. Shameful!
@@sofabee1did you hear the part where her water broke? 9 hours and they did nothing that’s not normal she was most likely waiting in intense pain I would have wanted to be in my own bed too not sitting on a hard chair
She was NOT arrested because she had a miscarriage! How can do many people who watched the video actually think that? Oh, maybe it was the people that decided to put that in the banner along the bottom of the screen. Go watch it again. This was a horrifying story about a doctor who didn’t make sure their patient got admitted and a hospital that neglected a patient in real need. It’s not about miscarriage. It’s not about abortion.
@@suzannemartin6817Did we watch the same video? She was arrested for an at home abortion and the fetus death. The nurse called 911 basically implying that the woman purposefully caused harm to the fetus and didn't bring it into the hospital for examination. Even that nurse wanted to keep the fetus then she should had done something first day patient was admitted. However, the fetus was not viable. This story is about miscarriage and the false allegations of breaking the law pertaining to that state on the matter of abortion. The nurse and pro lifers at that hosptial were awful. You cannot play god with people's lives. Job is to take care of the living, not the dead - the fetus or baby was same as dead with that faint heartbeat. Also healthcare is not free for this country. Imagine if she was 7 months pregnant and had an early delivery. If the baby needs critical care then mother foots bill of 100k plus. Let's stop the cap. Bring back abortion. God is great, but state and religion need to be separated.
This is why “exceptions” don’t really work, because there will be such a long delay in care because so many people will be involved who should have no say and either way it’s incredibly patronizing when women and their doctors can probably make the necessary decisions on their own. And I definitely don’t think that nurse “didn’t know”, she definitely knew what she was doing
Me being a mother and a woman I completely feel her pain there’s no way I would have been able to look to turn around to look at that fetus in the toilet. It was inhumane the way they treated her. And quite frankly barbaric.
The Nurse needs to be fired, and the hospital needs to be sued.
Absolutely! She was treated horribly.
And brought up on charges
I agree
Every damn body should be sued!! The nurse, hospital, police, state....every damn one involved!!! Ooh this makes me so damn mad 😠 😡
Let me tell everyone. I work at an ivy league medical institution in NYC. The level of toxicity, negligence and fraud within the healthcare system is staggering. It’s a business.
💯 truth
Absolutely!
Please tell us more about the medical fraud and negligence.
Exactly when she told her story about how she waited hours for care that never came I wasnt even surprised, when getting an appointment can already take 3 months.
Columbia or Cornell?
I’ve experienced this, waiting ridiculous hours for care so I left. I bet a lot of folks have done this.
So, the nurse should be charged with a felony, she literally tried setting an innocent person up to go to jail
A listening ear is not always a helping hand.
Healthcare has become a business and obviously doesn't care about the health of women, especially Black Women.
It's criminal.
This is such a sad story. 😢
I'm sorry this happened to you Ms. Watts.
Absolutely
Well said. It’s a true shame
"A listening ear is not always a helping hand." I am going to keep this quote close to my heart.
So true! A pregnant black woman will get lacking treatment from doctors. The maternal mortality rate for black women is 3 times higher than that of white women. Please my ladies do research when looking for an OB/GYN and get one who does the job that all doctors should do: treat ALL patients with care and compassion.
I love this quote!
Why was the nurse calling? This is something that the doctor alone needed to speak to the patient about, because things were very unclear. But the nurse took responsibility into her own hands, added in words that the patient didn't say, and then this happens. Why isn't the nurse being held accountable for violating HIPAA?
This is not about one nurse. Some investigation needs to be done on that hospital.
I'm glad Watts is not finished fighting. She needs to sue the state, the nurse; and everyone involved in her going to jail.
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