Prudente, an American photographer, began to miscarry her pregnancy at 16 weeks during a holiday with her partner on the Mediterranean island, and had been told there was no hope for it. But because of the heartbeat - and despite Prudente's own life-threatening risk of haemorrhage and infection - doctors at the Mater Dei hospital in Msida would not intervene to end her very wanted pregnancy. Malta's ban on abortion in all circumstances - the only EU country to do so - prevented it.
Prudente sent the grief counsellor away. "It's like sending in a PTSD counsellor when the battle is still going on," she says.
It took a widely publicised medical evacuation by air ambulance to the Spanish island of Mallorca to bring Prudente's two-week ordeal to an end, and for her and her partner, Jay Weeldreyer, to begin to truly grieve for their loss.
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