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No Woman "Wants" to Have to Choose 
by Margaret B. Moss
published in the Hartford Courant, Sunday, 3.6.2016











 At the age of 28, I made a rare appearance at my local church to seek solace. Two days earlier, I had suffered a miscarriage 11½ weeks into what was assumed to be a healthy pregnancy.
I sat in the rear of the church, hoping to derive comfort from this spiritual place. The minister began by announcing that this was a day to celebrate mothers. If this was God's idea of a joke, I thought it was a perverse juxtaposition of tragedy and epiphany... (Click link above for full story.)
Posted by Margaret B. Moss at 12:02 PM