When Brittany Watts began bleeding at 21 weeks pregnant, she went to her local hospital seeking help. Instead, she was repeatedly denied treatment. When she miscarried at home, hospital staff accused Watts of deliberately harming her fetus, and Watts was eventually arrested and charged with a felony.
While a grand jury later declined to indict Watts, she filed a lawsuit earlier this month, accusing hospital employees of fabricating evidence that she had harmed her baby and failing to properly treat her miscarriage symptoms.
On September 19, 2023, Watts went to St. Joseph Warren Hospital in Warren, Ohio, after she had begun experiencing pain and bleeding. Doctors told her she had experienced a placental abruption, an extremely dangerous condition in which the placenta separates from the wall of the uterus before birth. But instead of receiving treatment, Watts waited for eight hours without care or information about her condition.
