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There is... A LOT to unpack here. I want to address multiple points here, but know that my background is that I am a professional at, and frequently deal with, first trimester bleeding.

First off, anonymous welfare check for miscarriage. Welfare checks have their role, this is not their role. I do wonder, though, if this was a false pretense provided by the police. Obviously, she had warrants. Multiple, as the plurality in the original post implies. The welfare check might have been a pretense to arrest her for the warrant(s).

Let's address the warrant(s) next. Missed court date because she was in the hospital receiving medical care. Very reasonable. Very easy to submit documentation to the courts to receive a retrial. Mail it in, day trip, whatever. This is a basic necessity of our judicial system. Fail to do that? You get warrant(s) and arrested.

I'm not addressing the drug aspect. Whether it's weed dust or a kilo of cocaine, it doesn't change the rest of this story.

Okay, so now she's in the holding cell, requesting medical treatment. Let me address the medical perspective. First trimester bleeds are rarely life threatening. They can threaten the pregnancy, but nothing will be done in first trimester. Saying her "bleeding worsened" is very nonspecific. That being said, this is a condition that obviously required medical evaluation. The officers can say they evaluated for the extent of bleeding by how many pads she was going through, how soaked they are, etc. Maybe a judge will find that reasonable. Most police I know can recognize hemorrhage, which obviously hindsight tells us it was not. But police are not medical professionals, and we should not ask that of them. There is a way to bring her to an ER in custody for this evaluation, to be returned to jail after being deemed stable. By the post, they did not do this.

So in summary, while this may be touted as a Roe v Wade conversation, this is much more complex and has many other intricacies than simply abortion law.

Edit: I read the full article after creating this comment from the text in the post. She actually did receive medical evaluation. They had a nurse in the jail evaluate her and deemed her stable and not hemorrhaging. I'm not sure an emergency department would do anything more than the same evaluation, maybe an ultrasound which wouldn't really change things.