Posted on 11/18/2021 8:06:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It began as a compassionate new policy, one that makes perfect sense: women (and sometimes, their partners) who lose a baby through miscarriage should be entitled to paid time off to mourn and recover.
The movement first came to prominence in March of 2021, when New Zealand passed a new law. NPR reported that “New Zealand’s Parliament has approved legislation that will provide three days of paid leave after a miscarriage or stillbirth, without needing to use sick leave.” And indeed, the loss of a pregnancy can be not only heart-breaking but also physically harrowing. This is a humane policy.
According to the NPR report, however, the New Zealand law defines a miscarriage as “a pregnancy loss earlier than 20 weeks of gestation.” This broad definition covers all pregnancy losses, unplanned and planned.
Fast forward to last September, when Pittsburgh became the first U.S. city to pass a similar measure, covering its non-union municipal employees. Pittsburgh’s new law is more explicit, amending the city’s Human Resources code to provide up to three days of paid leave in the event of a “miscarriage, stillbirth or termination” of pregnancy.
The following month, Portland, Ore. followed suit with a paid pregnancy loss leave of its own. Local news KOIN reported: “Michelle Rodríguez, a senior policy advisor for Portland Commissioner Mingus Mapps, said this would also cover termination of pregnancy, such as abortion. Employees do not have to disclose the specific form of pregnancy loss.”
One thing that’s important to note about the Pittsburgh and Portland policies is that they are classified as “bereavement leave.” This must be confusing for the “clump of cells” crowd, because if no actual person was lost, of what is the sufferer bereft? But to the rest of us, this policy is, again, compassionate and humane.
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Those wacky democrats!
But I thought it was just a clump of tissue?
Takes a longer time than a couple of weeks to deal with abortion. Idiots
RE: But I thought it was just a clump of tissue?
LIBERALS: I can still mourn if a clump of my tissue was taken out.
Baby murderers need day off!
Portlandia and the Pits..
Woke cities on the list of wretched hives of scum and villainy.
The fact that any woman can share, with no remorse, that she had, or is having, an abortion still baffles me to this day. To them it’s like having a tooth pulled - they’ll tell you this without blinking an eye. May they all rot in Hell.
“Parental Leave to Recover From Your Abortion”
The word I’m choking on is “parental.” They just killed their baby. They just stopped being a parent to their baby. That is not parenting!
I’m willing to bet my latest copy of the Communist Manifesto that 1/2 of the American public doesn’t choke on the concept.
.....”The word I’m choking on is “parental.” They just killed their baby.”........
Yes, that would be criminal premeditated murder. As usual the left keeps altering and changing proper vocabulary usage in many cases to avoid truth.
They are a perfect example of ALL life is NOT precious.
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