Woman faces criminal charge after miscarriage — The Times and The Sunday Times

A judge has been accused of “demonising” pregnancy loss after an Ohio woman who suffered a miscarriage at home was charged with a criminal offence and placed under grand jury investigation. Brittany Watts, 33, is accused of “abuse of a corpse” — a fifth-degree felony that carries a potential penalty of up to a year in prison — because she flushed away the remains of her 22-week-old foetus, which she miscarried after it died in utero. Traci Timko, Watts’ lawyer, said: “I am horrified that my