{"id":231477,"date":"2020-09-24T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=231477"},"modified":"2020-09-24T01:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:25:38","slug":"humanity-preborn-theme-stories-pregnancy-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/humanity-preborn-theme-stories-pregnancy-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity of preborn children a common theme in stories of pregnancy loss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this year, TODAY.com<\/a> ran a beautiful series called Miscarriage Matters, exploring nine women’s heartbreaking experiences of pregnancy loss<\/a>. Through two video interviews in particular, these women shared their personal answers to common questions about miscarriage<\/a> in an effort to bring greater awareness to an issue impacting up to 1 in 4 pregnancies.<\/p>\n

Several women in the series experienced multiple miscarriages, including one who endured five losses. The gestational ages of their children at the time of loss varied \u2014\u00a0including one woman who experienced both a miscarriage (loss of a baby before 20 weeks gestation) and a stillbirth (loss of a baby after 20 weeks gestation). One woman’s miscarriage dated back to 1984, while another lost children as recently as February and July of 2019.<\/p>\n

The women answered a variety of questions ranging from how they knew that they were experiencing a miscarriage<\/a> to hurtful things other said after hearing the news to how they coped or memorialized their children:<\/p>\n