I work at a hospital in another state where the law says it is okay to do this and some nurses tried to convince the legal department it helped the family in the grieving process. The legal department did not want the hospital sued when someone found remains years later - in a closet - or buried in the backyard. She needs to ask what happens if she asks the hospital to take care of the remains - they may just dispose of them as medical waste or the hospital may have a cremation of a number of products of conception and then bury them or scatter at an appropriate site. Our hospital has a memory garden that is for this purpose.

Once again we're seeing the coming "Republican" health-care system.

Greed and profits will replace common sence and compassion .

You can forget care & compassion in any "for profit" hospital.

Brown said she asked the hospital to keep the remains while she decided
what to do but in the confusion signed papers agreeing to take them.

Playing the devil's advocate here, why wasn't there a relative, or possibly even the baby's father there to assist the poor woman with decisions/paperwork during the "confusion"?

Great efforts were made by hospital staff to try to stop the woman's contractions, and the hospital received from the woman signed instructions that she was going to take the remains with her. I can't see that the hospital was at fault for anything.

On another note, the woman stated that she doesn't have the money for a funeral. This is her third miscarriage, so obviously she has plans to eventually create a live baby. I wonder if the question about how she can afford to raise a child ever pops up.