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Brittany Watts, the Ohio woman charged with a felony after a miscarriage, says she doesn't want "any other woman to go through what I had to go through." ....
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Matei Brancoveanu / 500px / Getty Images(WARREN, Ohio) A grand jury decided Thursday not to indict an Ohio woman on allegations that she mishandled the remains of a fetus after miscarrying her pregnancy at home.
The case had alarmed reproductive rights groups and legal experts who said there is no clear guidance on how to handle an at-home miscarriage and that police and local prosecutors overreached by charging the woman, who is Black, with "abuse of a corpse."
Brittany Watts, 34, of Warren, was arrested last October and pleaded not guilty to the charge. If convicted, she would have faced up to a year in prison. Because the grand jury decided not to indict, the case has been dropped.
Supporters has been planning a rally at the courthouse Thursday at 4:00 p.m. ET, according to local reports.
According to the Trumbull County Coroner s Office, Watts water broke last September when she was 21 weeks and five days pregnant. A fetal heartbeat was pres ....