Juan José, a father determined to move heaven and earth for a cause he considers fair, is going out in the media to request that the law be amended to to bury your unborn child
The law grants this right to unborn babies with more than 180 days (6 months) of gestation, however his wife has suffered a miscarriage at home before that period, at 71 days (10 weeks) of gestation.
Not knowing the legal plot, having the fetus in his hands the father decided to keep it in formaldehy until he learned what to do with it. But he has encountered a legal vacuum that prevents him from burying his son whom they have called Miguel.
At first he thought about donating it to science, but when consulting with the gynecologist who attended to his wife, she suggested, with total lack of sensitivity, to throw it away.
They have also advised him to bury him in the garden, but the parents say that they have their dogs buried in the garden and believe that their son deserves better.
If the abortion had happened in the hospital, like other previous abortions that the couple has suffered, they might not have raised this possibility (in fact in a hospital nobody asks or gives the option to the parents, it is simply discarded as waste material organic), but the impact of having their son in their own hands motivated them to defend your dignity.
The father recognizes himself as a Catholic, but considers, and fully adheres, that being able to register a son with his name and bury him (even if he was not born) is a right that goes beyond religion. It is a question of humanity.
From Umamanita, the blog of a couple who has lost their unborn daughter, is also fighting for the same cause. Surely there will be many more parents who have gone through a similar situation or have considered the fate of their baby after an abortion.
I hope these parents get over the legal pitfalls to to bury your son as it deserves. Also so that cases like this serve to stop prenatal death from being a taboo subject and of course, to demand a greater sensitivity before the death of a son, although he has not been born.
