"On her way home from work on 9 November, Phyo Ei Ei Khine began experiencing lower back pain. It was not an altogether unfamiliar symptom, her workdays spent bent over a garment factory sewing machine often leaving her sore, but the pain and fatigue that particular day felt overwhelming. Married for three years, she was five months into her first pregnancy. By 2am that night she was up with severe abdominal pain. Pulling back the covers, she saw blood running down her legs. At the hospital, doctors told her she’d had a miscarriage. “They took the fetus away in a plastic bag. I didn’t want to look at it,” she recently told Myanmar Now, her eyes cast down to hide her tears. Myanmar's 2012 Social Security Law grants any employee registered for social security up to six weeks of paid medical leave after a miscarriage, and the 1951 Work and Holidays Act grants this same benefit even to those not registered for social security, though protections for day labourers and employees on probationary periods differ..."