Georgia Police Jailed Woman for Miscarriage and Performed Autopsy on Her Miscarried Fetus

[Nevilledog]

https://www.jezebel.com/georgia-police-jailed-woman-for-miscarriage-performed-autopsy-on-miscarried-fetus


A 24-year-old Georgia woman was arrested by local police last week after having a miscarriage. The woman was found unconscious and bleeding near her apartment building in Tifton, Georgia, only to be charged with “concealing the death of another person” and “abandonment of a dead body.” Police recovered fetal remains in a nearby dumpster after receiving a tip from a witness who claimed to have seen the woman disposing of the remains. Officers then collected the fetal remains to conduct an autopsy.

On Tuesday, authorities released the findings of the autopsy: According to local news station WALB, the county coroner uncovered “no signs of injury or trauma, and the baby never took a breath,” confirming that a natural miscarriage had occurred at about 19 weeks. Yet the criminal charges against the 24-year-old remain. The “concealing the death of another person” charge comes with up to 10 years in prison in Georgia, while the “abandonment of a dead body” charges comes with up to three.

About one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, and there are no legal standards or universal guidelines on how people should dispose of fetal remains. But instead of care and compassion, women and pregnant people routinely face invasive criminal investigations, highly publicized criminal trials, and even imprisonment or the threat of imprisonment for the outcomes of their pregnancies, or how they disposed of remains from a pregnancy.

The Tifton County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a request from Jezebel on why the young woman continues to face criminal charges for what the county coroner deemed a natural miscarriage. Nor has the sheriff’s office commented on whether it is standard procedure for individuals in the county to be arrested and jailed after miscarrying, or whether there are steps that people who miscarry must follow to dispose of remains from their pregnancy in order to avoid criminal charges. (This is your regular reminder to never, not ever, talk to the police about the outcomes of other people’s or your own pregnancies, and to take all precautions to protect your medical privacy.)

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Horrific for her and may women, but the CONservative self-styled "christians" don't give a god damn. . . . nt

[Ping Tung]

2. Has the government set a date for the inquisition to begin? Will the burnings be televised?

Belief i n a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine

[progressoid]

17. This.

All of this.

[Solly Mack]

3. ...

[Ray Bruns]

4. Why am I only hearing about this now? I regularly watch MSM news.

Seems to be a more important story than the “Grandma helps strangers connect ” stories.

[milestogo]

32. I posted it 2 days ago.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220179130

[NBachers]

5. I can just visualize the scene in the autopsy room as an Hieronymus Bosch painting.

[et tu]

16. and definitely not

the garden of earthly delights
so sad, women please take care

[bronxiteforever]

6. Kick for visibility

[58Sunliner]

7. This is so effing sick and abusive.

[spanone]

8. Fucking goddamn trmp.

May he rot in hell

[dchill]

9. Unfit for MSM audience consumption.

[Hekate]

10. Did she -- the bleeding woman -- EVER receive medical treatment? She is at risk for sepsis.

She is at risk of dying in jail, and soon.

By the Merciful Mother, I am glad I will never have a granddaughter.

[Moosepoop]

30. Yes, thankfully, she did.

https://tiftongazette.com/2025/03/21/woman-charged-after-fetus-found-in-dumpster/

At about 6 a.m. Thursday, emergency medical services responded to a call at the apartment complex regarding an unconscious woman who was bleeding. Upon arrival, EMS determined that the woman had suffered a miscarriage earlier, police said in an initial press release Thursday. She was immediately transported to Tift Regional Medical Center for treatment.

After that she was taken to jail. Hopefully the cops allowed her to stay at the hospital long enough for them to provide full and proper care before taking her away.

[Clouds Passing]

11. Abominable, the woman needs proper medical treatment and comfort not jail

If those males ever had to go through a miscarriage they would not be able to handle it.

[TommieMommy]

12. OMG 😱 she has been through a very traumatic experience and they do this 😡😡😡

[BadGimp]

13. That is so massively FU'd - to put this woman through this.

eom

[kimbutgar]

14. Im glad i was a young woman in the 70's and 80's where it seems we had more freedom

This evolution of the christofascist Taliban is horrendous!

[Coventina]

24. It's astonishing to watch "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and realize we have LESS RIGHTS NOW!!!

It makes me burn with the anger of a million suns!!!!!

[KewlKat]

15. I hope she can get a great legal team! Bless her.

[ReRe]

25. If it was me, I would call the ACLU.

[MarcoZandrini]

18. Handmaiden's take

Nuf sed.

[LittleGirl]

19. I'm just wondering

What her skin color is. Why? Because if she’s black or Hispanic, the racists arrested her.
If she’s white, the religious community will condemn her.

I’m so disgusted about this, I can’t comment more.

[bluboid]

20. omg!!!!!!!! holy sh*t!!!!!!!

this is absolutely horrific!!!
I come from a southern family that left the south decades ago...
wake the f up! how about a little, even just a tiny bit of COMPASSION!!!

[bluboid]

21. seriously -

can we begin a BOYCOTT of anything & everything from Georgia?!!?
money apparently is the only thing anyone understands!

[uponit7771]

31. It's worse, they even admit she didn't break any laws cause the time the fetus died. They're just torturing this women

[Buddyzbuddy]

22. I try to be sensitive to Freedom of Religion and then

I read a story like this. How in the world can anybody associate themselves with a religion that not only allows this but promotes this punitive behavior in the name of God. How is it different than Republican's blind fealty to a felon that is an assaulter of women and punisher of innocent people.
What does it take for a person to forgoe their common sense and human decency to punish a woman that has just experienced a traumatic moment in her life. Even if it was purposeful, which I'm not saying it was.
If I, an actual human being told anybody, the police, the state of Georgia to arrest and detain somebody for pruning a rose bush because it has life, you would ignore me. But, because this entity that exists in only your mind has given you rules that are made up by other people and you are told by other people to punish those that break the make believe rules made by people on behalf of a made up entity, that, you decide, yeah, that sounds right.
Please people, think. I understand a need to turn to a higher power for comfort but not a need to create a made up entity that speaks through me to control and punish society.
Take care of yourselves.

[PatSeg]

23. Almost every woman I've known has had at least one miscarriage

Myself included. This is absolutely horrifying. It appears that we are criminals just by virtue of being women.

[Irish_Dem]

26. America's new fascist regime is ruthless and brutal.

[pansypoo53219]

27. HEY! the supreme court eliminated abortion. they didn't say what has to be done w/ what used to be delt with.

mail it to alito. he can deal w/ fetuses.

[Mythos of Light]

28. This will be tame compared to what is coming.

Now that we've lost the country forever, this will be the normal response to any situation like this going forward. I suspect it will get much, much worse with time.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. We used to read stories like this in third world countries.......oh wait.

[BobTheSubgenius]

33. I know how picayune this is in the context of such a Handmaiden abomination, but my mind did a little hitch at this.

"women and pregnant people" WTH does this mean? Some pregnant people aren't women?

[GoreWon2000]

34. Nazi Germany now in America

The arrest of this woman by the Georgia police for having a natural miscarriage is straight out of Nazi Germany. Women in Nazi Germany who had a miscarriage were routinely investigated by the Nazis. I hope the ACLU will take her case.