GA woman who suffered miscarriage charged after fetus found in dumpster

GA woman who suffered miscarriage charged after fetus found in dumpster

Police in south Georgia are investigating after they said a fetus was found in an apartment dumpster.

When your miscarriage becomes the subject of a criminal investigation

States with abortion bans are increasingly targeting women who suffer miscarriages, marking a dangerous escalation in the GOP’s war on women’s bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom. This week, Georgia police arrested a 24-year-old woman after she suffered a miscarriage, with the state even performing an autopsy on the 19-week fetus. The Dobbs ruling is just the first step in a “long-term end game” of granting legal rights to fetuses that allo…

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Georgia Woman Charged After Miscarriage Despite Autopsy Confirming Natural Fetal Death

A 24-year-old woman from Tifton, Georgia is facing criminal charges after experiencing a miscarriage, raising concern among reproductive rights advocates and legal experts. Local police were called to the woman’s apartment complex last week, where she was found unconscious and bleeding. She was taken to a hospital for emergency care. Shortly after, police received a tip from a witness who claimed the woman had disposed of fetal remains in a near…

Georgia Woman Faces Criminal Charges Due To Strict Abortion Law After Suffering Traumatic Miscarriage: 'Who Is Bringing These Charges?!'

With how traumatic a miscarriage can be, it’s hard to imagine any woman getting criminally charged for one, even under strict abortion laws. However, such an egregious thought wasn’t too hard for the Georgia court to imagine, as it had a young woman arrested for disposing of the body of her own miscarried baby. 24-year-old Selena Maria Chandler-Scott was charged with “concealing the death of another person and abandonment of a dead body” after d…