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Article: Miscarriage and Stillbirth: The Changing Response
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- Anglican Theological Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Miscarriage and Stillbirth: The Changing Response. By Bruce Pierce. Dublin: Veritas Publications, 2003. 144 pp. $16.19 (paper).
I was not aware of it so much after my own miscarriage, but following the miscarriage of our first grandchild, I realized how many women carry the "great secret." Having earlier announced the joyful news to the congregation, I had to share with them the news of our daughter's miscarriage. The number of women who subsequently shared a similar story was legion. None of them had ever talked about it before. Too often, miscarriage is a secret buried more deeply with each passing year, festering silently and perversely filling the void left by a lost child. Now into ...