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Brittany Watts’ case sparked a national firestorm over legal risks pregnant women face as U.S. states hash out new laws governing reproductive health care access.

The Ohio woman was charged with ‘abuse of a corpse following her miscarriage.

An Ohio woman who miscarried on a home toilet and then left will not be criminally charged for her handling of a home miscarriage. The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office says that a grand jury declined to charge 34-year-old Brittany Watts with felony corpse abuse on Thursday. Watts’ case sparked a national firestorm over the legal risks pregnant women face as states across the country hash out new laws governing reproductive health care access. Police said Watts miscarried, flushed and scoo...

An Ohio woman facing a criminal charge for her handling of a home miscarriage will not be charged, a grand jury decided Thursday.

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An Ohio woman will not face criminal charges for her handling of a home miscarriage, as a grand jury declined to return an indictment for abuse of a corpse.

An Ohio woman facing a criminal charge for her handling of a home miscarriage will not be charged, a grand jury decided Thursday.

The grand jury decision came just hours before supporters of the woman had planned to rally outside the Ohio courthouse.

Brittany Watts had visited Mercy Health-St. Joseph's Hospital, a Catholic facility in working-class Warren, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Cleveland, twice in the days leading up to her miscarriage. Her doctor had told her she was carrying a nonviable fetus and to have her labor induced or risk "significant risk" of death, according to records of her case.

An Ohio woman facing a criminal charge for her handling of a home miscarriage will not be charged, a grand jury decided Thursday.