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Hong Kong parents and concern groups welcome new policy marking ‘respect’ for miscarried fetuses instead of treating remains as clinical waste

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Hongkonger Venus Lai, who suffered a miscarriage in her 21st week of pregnancy, was still reeling from the loss when she was rejected 30 times in her bid to bury her baby’s remains in a cemetery. This was because her child, named Cheung Loi-kin, which translates from Cantonese into “see you again”, was under the 24-week gestation mark to qualify as a fetus. Instead, it was considered an abortus, to be disposed of as medical waste. Lai lost her baby to a genetic disorder which...

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