Navigating Pregnancy Outcomes
Navigating Pregnancy Outcomes: A journey through the multifaceted landscape of pregnancy outcomes, delving into the emotional, psychological, and societal dimensions of abortion, miscarriage, and adoption, while fostering compassion, understanding, and support.
Understanding Abortion: The complex emotional and psychological terrain surrounding abortion, examining individual experiences for women, men, and societal attitudes, and fostering open dialogue and empathy. Focus on Abortion Survivors.
Exploring Miscarriage: The emotional and familial complexities of miscarriage, exploring its impact on families, children, and societal attitudes, and fostering support and understanding in the face of loss and grief.
Prenatal Origins of Abortion & Miscarriage: The prenatal factors and underlying contributors to abortion and miscarriage, shedding light on the (maternal) environmental, and psychosocial determinants that may influence pregnancy outcomes.
Guilt, Shame, and Punishment Repertoire: Examination of the pervasive feelings of guilt and shame often associated with pregnancy loss and abortion, and challenging societal attitudes and stigmas through compassionate understanding and support.
Grief, Bereavement, and Burial Ceremonies: The complex terrain of grief and bereavement following pregnancy loss, exploring the role of cultural and religious rituals, and providing avenues for healing, remembrance, and support.
Exploring Adoption Dynamics: Illuminating the hidden journey of individuals and families involved in adoption processes, exploring the emotional, legal, and ethical dimensions of adoption, and fostering empathy, support, and understanding.
Community Implementation:
Recognizing Vulnerable Groups: Identifying and supporting groups within the community that may be more vulnerable during pregnancy outcomes, offering tailored support and resources to address their unique needs.
Reducing Stigma and Prejudice: Implementing strategies to combat stigma and prejudice associated with abortion, miscarriage, infertility, and adoption, fostering a culture of empathy, acceptance, and support within the community.
Facilitating Open Dialogues: Fostering open dialogues within the community to address misconceptions, challenging societal norms, and promoting understanding and compassion surrounding pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health.
Support Services and Resources: Establishing pre- and post-adoption support services and resources for families, providing comprehensive assistance, guidance, and emotional support throughout the adoption journey.
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Abortion (n.)
1540s, “the expulsion of the fetus before it is viable,” originally of deliberate as well as unintended miscarriages; from Latin abortionem (nominative abortio) “miscarriage; abortion, procuring of an untimely birth,” noun of action from past-participle stem of aboriri “to miscarry, be aborted, fail, disappear, pass away,” a compound word used in Latin for deaths, miscarriages, sunsets, etc., which according to OED is from ab, here as “amiss” (see ab-), + stem of oriri “appear, be born, arise” (see origin> origin (n.): c. 1400, “ancestry, race,” from Latin originem (nominative origo) “a rise, commencement, beginning, source; descent, lineage, birth,” from stem of oriri “arise, rise, get up; appear above the horizon, become visible; be born, be descended, receive life;” figuratively “come forth, take origin, proceed, start” (of rivers, rumors, etc.), from PIE *heri- “to rise” (source also of Hittite arai- “to arise, lift, raise,” Sanskrit iyarti “to set in motion, move,” Armenian y-arnem “to rise”). Meaning “beginning of existence” is from 1560s; sense of “that from which something derives its being or nature” is from c. 1600.).
Miscarry: c. 1300, “go astray;” mid-14c., “come to harm; come to naught, perish;” of persons, “to die,” of objects, “to be lost or destroyed,” from mis- (1) “wrongly” + caryen “to carry”. Carry: early 14c., “to bear or convey, take along or transport,” from Anglo-French carier “transport in a vehicle” or Old North French carrier “to cart, carry” (Modern French charrier), from Gallo-Roman *carrizare, from Late Latin carricare, from Latin carrum originally “two-wheeled Celtic war chariot,” from Gaulish (Celtic) karros, from PIE *krsos, from root *kers- “to run.” In 19c. some effort was made to distinguish abortion “expulsion of the fetus between 6 weeks and 6 months” from miscarriage (the same within 6 weeks of conception) and premature labor (delivery after 6 months but before due time). The deliberate miscarriage was criminal abortion. This broke down late 19c. as abortion came to be used principally for intentional miscarriages, probably via phrases such as procure an abortion.Foeticide (n.) appears 1823 as a forensic medical term for deliberate premature fatal expulsion of the fetus; also compare prolicide. Another 19c. medical term for it was embryoctony, with second element from a Latinized form of Greek kteinein “to destroy.” Abortion was a taboo word for much of early 20c., disguised in print as criminal operation (U.S.) or illegal operation (U.K.), and replaced by miscarriage in film versions of novels. Abortium “hospital specializing in abortions,” is from 1934, in a Soviet Union context. Prolicide: “killing of one’s child or children,” 1824, introduced by Dr. John Gordon Smith in the 2nd edition of his “Principles of Forensic Medicine;” from Latin proles “offspring” (see prolific) + -cide “a killing.” Prolific: 1640s, “producing young or fruit;” 1650s, “producing offspring or fruit in abundance;” from French prolifique (16c.), from Medieval Latin prolificus, from Latin proles “offspring” + combining form of facere “to make, to do” (from PIE root *dhe- “to set, put”). Latin proles is contracted from *pro-oles, from PIE *pro-al-, from *pro- “forth” (see pro- word-forming element meaning “forward, forth, toward the front” “beforehand, in advance” (prohibit, provide); “taking care of” (procure); “in place of, on behalf of” (proconsul, pronoun); from Latin pro (adv., prep.) “on behalf of, in place of, before, for, in exchange for, just as,” which also was used as a first element in compounds and had a collateral form por-. Also in some cases from cognate Greek pro “before, in front of, sooner,” which also was used in Greek as a prefix (as in problem). Both the Latin and Greek words are from PIE *pro- (source also of Sanskrit pra- “before, forward, forth;” Gothic faura “before,” Old English fore “before, for, on account of,” fram “forward, from;” Old Irish roar “enough”), extended form of root *per- (1) “forward,” hence “in front of, before, toward, near,” etc. The common modern sense of “in favor of, favoring” (pro-independence, pro-fluoridation, pro-Soviet, etc.) was not in classical Latin and is attested in English from early 19c.) + root *al- (2) “to grow, nourish.” Related: Prolifical (c. 1600).
von der Hude, K.; Garten, L. Psychosocial Support within the Context of Perinatal Palliative Care: The “SORROWFUL” Model. Children 2023, 10, 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010038
