Selena Maria Chandler-Scott, 24, was found unconscious and bleeding by EMS after miscarrying. Police later found the remnants of her fetus in a bag in a dumpster nearby, after a witness reported seeing her dispose of the bag.
Chandler-Scott was arrested and charged with concealing the death of another person, and one count of throwing away or abandonment of a dead body. Tifton Police said in a press release the fetus died as a result of a miscarriage, not an abortion. She was transferred to Tift Regional Medical Center for treatment after being found, and was not immediately charged.
It’s unclear what Chandler-Scott should have done to avoid charges in this case. Her arrest is another example of the rights of a fetus taking precedence over the rights of women in red states. Vagueness in the language of Republican abortion bans has led women to avoid going to the hospital for care of miscarriages. Any intervention to save the women’s life could be interpreted as an illegal abortion, a crime which carries a sentence of up to ten years.
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The fuck, this woman needs medical attention, and instead they arrested her?!?!?!
And almost certainly knowing that if someone saw her miscarriage she would be arrested and thus tried to hide the fetus in a dumpster instead of seeking medical attention. Now they arrested her because of a nark and she has to deal with the mental load/trauma of not only a miscarriage, but possible jail time and defending herself while her private life is publicized.
Fuck these far right assholes, and the nark turning this lady in.
Far right is far wrong
Don’t you know that
breederswomen are private property?
So cruel.
Nah, just the normal south.
