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The joke is not the miscarriage. People aren't posting the original comic and laughing at the characters.
The humor is in the subtely of the reference
The original comic wasn't humorous. It was a guy trying to portray his experience when his partner miscarried. There was no humour to it. It was a story of trauma and pain. It was poorly done, because it turned his partner in to a vehicle to center his own experience, and people rightly called it out for that. But even so, the dudes pain was real. So was his partners. And the miscarriage was real.
Turning it in to a meme is just a bit of a shitty thing to do, however valid the criticism or the comic, or however "subtle the references" are.
Can you explain what you mean by the poorly done line? I was a teenager when it came out so maybe I missed it but it felt like a way of expressing something tragic that happened, just like a singer writing a song about something bad that happened.
Fridging. When a female character suffers harm purely as a plot device for the protagonist.
That doesn't feel like it applies here because it was about something that actually happened? Both are suffering and it seems genuine.
The female character in the comic isn't the same as the real person it happened to