Ohio jury clears woman of charges in home miscarriage case
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.
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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.