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“You have cancer.” Fear and dread pulse upon hearing those words.  The stigma of cancer—the chemotherapy, the endless tests, the knowledge that death is growing inside—is not joyful.  But the disease and the stigma can be overcome. “You’re pregnant.” Depending on circumstances, this is can be the biggest news in the world, or the worst possible thing. There are only two ways a pregnancy can end: a birth or a death.  There’s no stigma in having a baby, but the stigma never goes away when a pregnancy ends without one.  No matter how much some people want to hush over...