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"Imagine: You Are 8 Months Pregnant, When All of A Sudden..."

    Your doctor says your healthy baby's heart has just stopped beating.

      She has died.  For no medical reason whatsoever.

      Now you must face unfathomable decisions: Endure induced labor. Suffer intense mental trauma to deliver a stillborn child. Battle incalculable emotional damage for the rest of your life.

     This is our story.

     And something else...

     Imagine for a minute that a sealed envelope arrives. It's postmarked by your state's Office of Vital Statistics.  You open it. Inside is your infant daughter's death certificate.

   "Can my nightmare get any worse?", you wonder.

    It does.

    Because you will then learn that you will never receive her birth certificate. 

    Because the law, in some states, like Florida, say...

Florida Vital Statistics Act. Section 382.002 defines “fetal death” ... if the 20th week of gestation has been reached... and the fetus does not breathe or... any evidence of life such as beating of the heart. “Live birth” is defined to mean the... product of human conception from its mother, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy... which... breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart...

       In other words, you are not entitled to a birth certificate for your child because you did not give "live" birth.

       Despite the fact that you gave birth.

       In other words, her birth never occurred.  The State says it simply didn't exist.

Unthinkable?

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