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Allow women who miscarry some dignity

What a humane decision by the Scottish government to agree to special units for women who have experienced miscarriage. It is something I argued for many years ago when I had a traumatic ectopic pregnancy in 1981, losing my foetus which had become lodged in a fallopian tube. My recovery from surgery in the Princess anne maternity unit in Southampton could not have been more thoughtlessly designed. together with new mothers learning to breastfeed their babies, I lay in a ward alongside a woman undergoing a new fertility treatment in her desperation to become a mother. On my other side was a 14-yearold in an advanced stage of pregnancy who was to have an abortion. She hadn’t told her mother, so I and the woman having fertility treatment, in the absence of attentive nurses, sat through the night at her side as she laboured to abort her foetus. It was a cruel practice, and I can’t believe it has taken 40 years for it to be recognised as such.

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