الأربعاء، 9 ديسمبر 2020

Author who suffered miscarriage alone demands end of NHS Covid partner ban

Feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez says practice is ‘traumatising’ and ‘inhumane’

A prominent feminist campaigner and writer has described in devastating detail how she was left feeling “humiliated and alone” as she was forced to deal with a miscarriage without her partner.

Caroline Criado Perez, the author of Invisible Women, called on NHS trusts to allow partners to attend medical appointments, scans and emergencies in maternity services, because the refusal to do so was “traumatising an already traumatised woman”. She added: “It needs to stop, now.”

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3qHE6TO

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