(Irish Times) Hidden pregnancy hasn’t gone away, it just has another face

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The Irish Times
Hidden pregnancy hasn’t gone away, it just has another face
While Ireland may no longer be such a harsh place for unmarried pregnant women, the stigma persists
Marese McDonagh
Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 01:00

Agnes always assumed that her mother would be supportive if she got pregnant, but just as she was working up the courage to break the news, her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now there is so much stress at home that she knows there will never be a good time to drop the bombshell and so she refuses even to think about it.

Eileen sometimes wishes that people would stop talking about the mother and babies scandal because she is in a black hole and the constant handwringing and recrimination on the radio is making her feel overwhelmed.

Her recently laid-off husband has stopped opening the bills, her teenage son has stopped asking if he can go to college, and she can’t face the prospect of another baby at 42.

Every so often, Ireland is transfixed by revelations and reminders of the mothers and babies so cruelly treated by a society with no place for women who got pregnant outside marriage....

MORE at http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/hidden-pregnancy-hasn-t-gone-away-it-just-has-another-face-1.1867024

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1. The unwed

Are not the only ones to experience a problem pregnancy.
And there is not a lot of talk about women whom would die if they tried to carry to term. I worked with a woman who never had kids. I asked her why. She was pregnant once but some how her circulation was compromised and it was straining her heart so badly she was going to die. She was very distraught to have to terminate. She was advised never to get pregnant again.

The other woman I know had just delivered and was short of breath before she was discharged to home. The big baby and the long labor ripped a large artery, to her heart, in the front and in the back. We almost lost her. She was lucky to have a wizbang surgeon and have strength and youth on her side. She would have to abort should she ever become pregnant again. It would kill her.

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