The aforementioned e-mail reminds me of Karen Santorum who wrote a beautiful book about her son Gabriel, who died at twenty weeks. Here is what NRODT wrote about it in 1998:

During Senate floor debate in 1996 on a bill to ban partial-birth abortion, Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) was told that he could not make a judgment about something that had never touched his life. Less than a month later, Santorum’s wife, Karen, pregnant with their fourth child, had a miscarriage. Letters to Gabriel chronicles Gabriel Michael Santorum’s twenty-week life. Although he spent only two hours outside the womb before he died, he had become a part of the family in utero. As Mrs. Santorum writes, Accepting partial-birth abortion as our only alternative to a difficult birth or a potentially disabled infant is to thwart two of our strongest human needs: those of love and memory.”