But my miscarriage was also mine, I came to realize, and no less painful than anyone else’s. I had gotten pregnant easily with my first daughter. Mike and I bought a house, stopped using ...

The second act was the D&C, short for “dilation and curettage”: the paperwork, ... But my miscarriage was also mine, I came to realize, and no less painful than anyone else’s.

After she was treated by emergency doctors, Doute was then given paperwork that explained that she had gone through a "threatened miscarriage," saying that that was "the last thing you want to read." ...

The church helped me heal after my miscarriage. ... but anywhere from 10 percent to 15 percent of pregnancies will end in what the mother’s medical paperwork will dispassionately call a ...

“You gave me the wrong forms,” I said. “These say I’m here for an abortion; I’m here for a miscarriage.” A quick half-smile broke her face into a moon of empathy: This procedure is an abortion, she ...