{"id":207002,"date":"2019-07-21T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207002"},"modified":"2019-07-19T23:48:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:48:49","slug":"meghan-mccain-shares-heartbreak-miscarriage-babies-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/meghan-mccain-shares-heartbreak-miscarriage-babies-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan McCain shares heartbreak over miscarriage: ‘We weep because our babies were real’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meghan McCain, conservative co-host of The View and daughter of the late Senator John McCain, expressed her grief over a recent miscarriage in an op-ed piece for The New York Times<\/a> on Friday. She spoke openly and honestly about the surprise, the joy, and the heartache that she felt and how society must acknowledge the emotional pain women feel during and after miscarriage.<\/p>\n

That pain, says McCain, is real because the babies lost to miscarriage were real. “They were conceived, and they lived, fully human and fully ours – and then they died,” she wrote. “We deserve the opportunity to speak openly of them, to share what they were and to mourn. More important, they deserve to be spoken of, shared and mourned. These children, shockingly small, shockingly helpless, entirely the work of our love and our humanity, are children<\/em>.\u00a0We who mourn are their mothers.”<\/p>\n

McCain, like many women who suffer miscarriages, spent time blaming herself and wondering what it was that she did wrong. She blamed her age (she’s 34). She blamed her high-pressure career. She blamed living her life in the public eye. But in reality, her miscarriage was not her fault and she can’t live her life blaming herself, as should no other woman who suffers a natural miscarriage.<\/p>\n

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308 days, Dad. Still counting them.<\/a><\/p>\n

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