Heartless Trolls Attack Meghan Markle After She Reveals Miscarriage Earlier This Year

November 25, 2020, 8:16 am*

Meghan Markle is opening up about a miscarriage she suffered earlier this summer, writing about the traumatic event for The New York Times in an opinion piece published Wednesday. 

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The Duchess of Sussex shared in descriptive prose how she realized she was losing her second child with Prince Harry.

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“After changing [her son’s] diaper, I felt a sharp cramp,” she wrote. “I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right. I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.”

Though the piece reveals the tragedy that Meghan and her family faced back in July, it is ultimately an essay focused more on how united the whole world is in grief, particularly with the specific challenges 2020 has brought, and how people still often struggle with talking about their pain openly.

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“Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few,” she pointed out. “Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.”

Meghan ended by urging people to ask others “Are you OK?” because “the truth is that we are more connected than ever because of all we have individually and collectively endured this year.”

Only cold-hearted and calloused people would take this deeply personal essay to be anything less than an empathetic attempt to share her own pain in the hopes of giving others permission to voice their own, and unite people in these difficult times.

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But the unwarranted disdain for the Duchess continues even as she and Prince Harry are clearly still in mourning, and the trolls came out in full force with cruel criticisms almost immediately.

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As evidenced by the tweets compiling these cynical takes on Meghan’s openness, there are plenty of people willing to push back against anyone so bold as to publicly attack her for talking about a miscarriage, but the fact that this is at all necessary is a blunt condemnation of our society.

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But despite the gaggle of trolls off being miserable in their little corner of the internet, Meghan’s essay is still resonating with people, and will very likely do some good in this world.

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And at least one Twitter user pointed out something that few of these trolls clearly bother to consider:

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*First Published: November 25, 2020, 8:12 am

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