3 posts tagged ‘midwifery’
Jury Decides Not to Prosecute Black Woman in Ohio for Having a Miscarriage
Jezebel,
A grand jury in Trumbull County, Ohio, has decided not to charge Brittany Watts with a felony abuse of a corpse charge for having a miscarriage 22 weeks into her pregnancy, county prosecutors announced on Thursday. The decision comes after Watts’ case sparked national outrage that a Black woman was being criminalized… Read more...
Public Outrage May Have Helped Clear Mother of Murder Charge Over Fatal Home Birth
Three years ago, Kelsey Carpenter, now 34, planned a home birth for her third child. She’d long battled with substance abuse problems and feared her baby would be taken from her by the state if she had a hospital birth, since she’d lost custody of her first two children after testing positive for drugs prior to this… Read more...
Jon Hamm worked with a nippleologist
AV Club,
Hollywood is full of weird, wonderful, and often under-appreciated jobs. There are foley artists who make props sound like sex and food stylists who turn regular old pork into delectable human flesh. Westworld had a fly wrangler and someone on Breaking Bad had to figure out how to make rock candy look like meth. But… Read more...