The wife of the leading Democrat primary candidate for U.S. Senate, who’s made a campaign issue out of her difficulty getting pregnant, has lost her first baby.
The Graham Platner campaign announced Monday night Amy Gertner suffered a miscarriage following the couple’s highly publicized IVF treatments in the country of Norway.
“Just as the difficulty in accessing fertility treatment is overlooked, so too is the heartbreak of loss,” Platner Saturday social-media post. “We suffered that heartbreak recently, when we experienced a miscarriage.”
“While it’s difficult to talk about, we felt it was important to be open, because so many families have experienced the same,” he added.
Platner allowed their problem to transition from personal to political by also saying that 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage.
“To anyone who has experienced a loss like this: you are not alone,” he said. “We’re with you – just as so many of you have been there for us.
Platner said the couple hasn’t decided “what comes next.”
He is in the middle of a bruising primary campaign against Maine’s term-limited governor for the Democrat primary nomination.
Janet Mills has been badly trailing in the polls ahead of the June 9th election to see who will take on five-term GOP Sen. Susan Collins.
The Democrat race also includes a third contender, David Costello.
Thats a shame. Sorry this happened. Dont like his politics but this is really sad.
How many abortions has she had?
if we’re gonna live this out in public and demand the taxpayers pay for expensive, fertility treatments, then we should discuss the rest of the story, including why the fertility treatments become necessary.
We need to tell young women that they have a cup they two abortions in college another one in their 20s and then wait until they’re 40 years old before they try to have a child, it ain’t gonna go well.
Medically, speaking, a mother of the age of 35 is considered a geriatric pregnancy, geriatric as an old person. Reality is that the female body is most suitable to have children and have children easily at the age of 20.
And we’re not supposed to say this, but abortions make it much easier for a woman to have miscarriages in the future. I know too many women who nonchalantly had abortions when they’re in college and then struggled to bring one child to term when they were older.
I can sympathize with the couple, I personally would’ve kept all this private, but if they’re gonna make the issue of fertility treatments public, then let’s tell the rest of the story. The woman was 39 years old when she testified in front of a bill in the legislature, which makes her probably 40 now — she should’ve had children 15 years ago.
He made it public because he thinks it will help him politically to gain sympathy and votes. That guy is as cold blooded and calculating as it gets. Next up ask him about his position on abortion. He will dodge the question and try to say “it’s not the same,” or something like it.
SO WHAT ? Guess he can poke her again.
While I feel for her this is nothing more than a publicity stunt for him and his campaign. The thing that is good about this is that this poor kid has been saved from becoming another Nazi loving Communist.
Regardless of how much I detest his political views, dishonesty and on and on, my heart breaks for them both. That’s all that needs to be said.
If this story were about another Trump assassination attempt, the left would be screaming that the so-called endangered victim planned the whole faked scenario himself.
Loss of a child is always a sad thing. Even when it’s disappeared in an act of reproductive “freedom and rights.”
While we’re at it, does anyone know the rationale for Plat-man’s 100% disability? I noticed on a photo in a recent Portland Paper that he appears to have lost part of the pinky on his right hand. Please tell me that’s not the explanation.
He could have gotten that from an infection caused by chewing his fingernail into the quick.
And he talks all tough guy and displays his outdoor toughness.
So where’s the disability? If it’s TBI, should he be a US Senator?
Actually, that might make him a good fit with Schiff, Schumer, Booker, and some others.
Well, I found info saying he has back and knee related injuries, and also PTSD.
I wonder how many other Senators have PTSD?
Having lived with the terrible memories of 3 miscarriages before our second child was finally born ,31 years ago now , I can sympathize with them as fellow humans. One never forgets those lost children.
I deplore his/their political stances .
Mr.Platner (“wanna see my Totenkopf ?” ) is an insult to American politics in the disguise of a “democrat socialist” .Realistically, when you examine what they actually say about their own goals to destroy the country from within the Democrat Party –which the media won’t touch as it doesn’t fit their left-wing view narrative– no sane Maine voter should support Platner–or any Maine candidate that avows the DSA as their political North Star.
As to the tragedy of their miscarriage— his wife’s age is certainly a factor ,but the unspoken risk factor that only a few short years ago did not exist is now being shown to be a greater risk to pregnancies no matter the age of the mother — the “Covid 19- MRNA ” shots. Given their politics I would expect they were dedicated mask wearers and multiple Covid shot recipients. Too Bad.
The Maine Wire has recently covered the indictment of Dr.Fauci’s assistant for deleting emails that showed collusion/damaging knowledge of the “vaccine” –and this recent post from Sasha Latypova goes into great detail about exactly this risk-of-miscarriage-in-pregnancy.
Read it and weep for all those who deny this exists and are trying to have children now.
Paul Ackerman