In mid-August, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said couples should be given paid leave from work if they lose an unborn child.
Sturgeon, who suffered a miscarriage in 2011, agreed with legislation going through the New Zealand Parliament to give women and their partners up to three days leave to grieve an unborn child. The Scottish Parliament does not have the power to introduce compassionate leave for miscarriage as employment law is reserved to Westminster.