My Mom Called Me 'Selfish' For Not Having Kids. Here's The Secret My Husband And I Didn't Tell Her.

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A HuffPost Personal essay recounts the author's decades of pressure from her mother and relatives to have children, a decision complicated by an unplanned pregnancy, a 1976 abortion, and a later diagnosis that her husband was HIV positive following a 1986 test. The piece is a first-person reflection, not a policy or government story.

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