The UK is updating their bereavement laws for miscarriages.
Currently, women who lose a child after 24 weeks of pregnancy can take two paid weeks off for bereavement, but now, they're extending that to include one week of bereavement if the child is lost before 24 weeks.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the change will give ‘people time away from work to grieve.
‘No one who is going through the heartbreak of pregnancy loss should have to go back to work before they are ready.'
Musician and broadcaster Myleene Klass, who led an awareness movement to address the issue said,
‘You're not ill, you've lost a child, there's a death in the family.'
Klass said the topic had long been ‘swept under the carpet,' adding it was only after experiencing pregnancy loss herself that many of her friends and family shared their ‘deep dark secret' of having had miscarriages, too.
She said: ‘It's a taboo - nobody wants to talk about dead babies - but you have to actually say it as it is. To lose a child is harrowing, it's traumatic.'
And yet, the same government recognizing that women experiencing a miscarriage are also experiencing a death in the family simultaneously passed a law pretty much decriminalizing abortion up to the moment of birth.
During debate of the UK's wide-ranging Crime and Policing Bill, MPs rejected Creasy's proposal to make abortion access a human right in England and Wales but adopted an amendment to decriminalize women who terminate their own pregnancies, regardless of the number of weeks of gestation.
The vote in favor of this change — by a comfortable majority of 379 to 137 — was front-page news in the UK, with headlines including ‘MPs vote to decriminalise abortion at any point up to birth.'
So on the one hand, the British recognize that a baby is a child, a member of the family, and on the other hand, the British see a baby as nothing more than a clump of cells that can be readily discarded.
I swear the cognitive dissonance of these two laws being passed at the same time by the same people is a paradoxical event asinine enough to tear apart the very fabric of the time-space continuum.
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