Back in 2018, when my member's bill had just been drawn from the ballot, Dunedin writer Kathryn Van Beek wrote in The Spinoff an article, and in that article she wrote the words that "A miscarriage is a strange, secret birth that is also a death." Kathryn miscarried in 2016. She described the loss of her baby's heartbeat, having to leave the hospital without a baby, and also packing away her baby sheepskin. She described grief as a word that she had never known before, and she talked of wishing she told more people of what was happening to her, because miscarriage is so often not talked about. It is left in the shadows.