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Why do stories about morning sickness inspire such rage? | Zoe Williams

Medicine has a history of minimising female pain, even more so when the female is pregnant – there’s a savagery directed at the whole maternal package
Hyperemesis gravidarum is a terrible affliction, whatever the Mail says. Photograph: stock_colors/Getty Images/iStockphoto

You can tell when the Daily Mail disapproves of something because it puts it in capital letters, so it feels as though you, the reader, are being shouted at, which is confusing. How can it be your fault? You only just found out.

Anyway, the Mail is very angry with pregnant women: 20,000 ambulances (or “up to”, so it could

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