Miscarriage: Paula Forteza proposes a three-day work stoppage

Miscarriage affects approximately one in ten women and results in a spontaneous termination that occurs during the first 5 months of pregnancy. Globally, approximately 23 million women miscarry each year. It is a particularly difficult ordeal, which the independent ecologist deputy Paula Forteza underwent. Indeed, she recently told the New Obs that as “as a woman, I realized that I was not equipped to get through this ordeal. I felt alone, isolated, without concrete information”.

Indeed, miscarriage is a delicate subject, still taboo in France and excluded from public health. That’s why she wants the miscarriage to be better taken care of. The latter must be psychological, but also medical. Thus, a “hospitalization” could also be offered to women who have suffered a miscarriage, according to Paule Forteza.

A specific leave of 3 days

The MP has decided to make it a fight and unveiled her bill on March 30, 2022. She wishes, among other things, to raise awareness and better communicate around miscarriage. She would like to introduce the possibility of taking a work stoppage for 3 days following a miscarriage, like the “New Zealand. It is a means of officially and symbolically recognizing the existence of this moment, and of the mourning it induces.“For Paula Forteza, Even Though”miscarriage is not a disease, […] it is a significant event that requires time to recover from. Both for the wife and for the spouse.”

She also wants a right to information, which is one of the other pillars of her legislative project. Thus, according to her, it is essential to “talk about pregnancy and the associated risks, right from school.“And to add that he”is totally incomprehensible that this is not mentioned during sex education lessons. This is a subject that deserves to be understood and apprehended by women, but also by men.“

It also claims a better course of care, by creating specific support for miscarriage, whether it is the woman or her partner.