Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Thousands of women have PTSD symptoms after miscarriages - BBC News" video.

This really doesn't surprise me to be honest. It must be dreadful to feel that connection to a life that you are growing and have built a relationship with. Can we also acknowledge that potential fathers ALSO feel a sense of loss, especially in cases where the woman has an abortion against the man's wishes. In a literal sense, she has murdered his child and his possible future.
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Victim culture is a sickening trend nowadays, but but post abortion bereavement or even PTSD is not an example of it. These people feel as though they have genuinely lost a child. That IS about themselves.
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I'm afraid that that is indicative of the modern NHS Julie. I have witnessed this kind of lack of empathy so many times. It's truly appalling.
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@Mina-ti9nh We're talking about post-loss bereavement. Can you not bear to acknowledge that this affects both genders not just those with wombs?
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@leagarner3675 No, I understand that there is a special biological connection for a woman living with that child within her for months, feeling an emotional connection. I even alluded to that in my original comment. I have enormous empathy for any mother that loses a baby during pregnancy, just as I have enormous loss for any parent that loses a child later in life. I never said that they were the same. I feel as though you have selectively misread my comment to feed into a narrative of your own invention.
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@S W It's amazing how some women think the conversation should always be ringfenced only around them. The loss of a child is not a gendered issue. Yes, there are elements that pertain to women, just as there are elements that pertain men. Why are you so hostile to an all-inclusive conversation?
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@naylas3908 That all sounds horrific Nayla, and I appreciate that the experiences you describe are mostly unique to women. I do not belittle that in the slightest. Your comment has given me even more empathy for that trauma. I genuinely feel for any woman that has to go through what you described. I never said that men experience the same thing. I said that men also experience a sense of loss. I could talk about all the way that men may feel the loss, especially when a child is aborted against their will, but all that matters is that they ALSO experience the pain of it, albeit in different ways.
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