October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
The designation dates back to 1988, when President Ronald Reagan first proclaimed it.
Reagan’s proclamation recognized the support groups that had sprung up in the 1970s and 1980s to comfort grieving families and push doctors to acknowledge the emotional toll of miscarriages and stillbirths and encourage hospitals to offer perinatal bereavement care.
But the President did not stop with miscarriages and stillbirths. He also praised at length the “Compassionate Americans… assisting women who suffer bereavement, guilt, and emotional and physical trauma that accompany post-abortion syndrome.”...
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