الأحد، 2 أغسطس 2015

With miscarriage, there are many routes to shame | Zoe Williams

Mark Zuckerberg is right to challenge the taboos surrounding pregnancy. But the pressure on women remains intense

Most people don’t discuss miscarriages because you worry your problems will distance you or reflect upon you – as if you’re defective or did something to cause this,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg, announcing his wife’s pregnancy, after three miscarriages. In the open letter, he continued: “In today’s open and connected world, discussing these issues doesn’t distance us; it brings us together. It creates understanding and tolerance, and it gives us hope.” It is not strange at all that the inventor of Facebook would think social media had a new answer to a problem as old as humankind. What would be strange is if he were right: what if that’s true? What if this taboo were to be overturned by the internet? What would the implications of that be, for all other taboos, for all other hopes?

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1IE9nwG

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