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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Julie Carr Smyth

Reproductive rights group urges Ohio prosecutor to drop criminal charge against woman who miscarried

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The physicians' group behind Ohio's newly passed reproductive rights amendment is urging a prosecutor to drop criminal charges against a woman who miscarried in the restroom at her home.

Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, a nonpartisan coalition of 4,000 doctors and others, argues in a letter to Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins that the abuse-of-corpse charge against Brittany Watts, 33, conflicts “with the spirit and letter” of Issue 1.

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