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Lessons From the Māori and Japanese Peoples on Grieving Pregnancy Loss
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YES! Magazine - Body Politics
Abortion in a world where reproductive justice is realized means allowing each person full autonomy over their pregnancy decision.
Across the country, namely Wisconsin, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Texas, legislators codified mandatory ultrasound viewing into their state’s abortion policy.
Allowing abortion patients to see and feel complicated feelings about their abortion is also contradictory to national abortion messaging.
But other countries offer cultural practices that acknowledge the fetus (and its death) without stigmatizing abortion, particularly if we don’t treat abortion loss as fundamentally distinct from miscarriage and stillbirth.
In New Zealand, Maori abortion patients are often allowed to take their fetal remains home and have a cultural burial.
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