Infertility affects nearly 6.1 million women and 2.1 million married couples in the United States. Additionally, 25 percent of women of childbearing age will experience a miscarriage and one in 80 pregnancies will end in a stillbirth.
In Hope Deferred, we hear the voices of five female scholars from a variety of denominations as they share their very private stories of painful loss in the hope of bringing comfort and a theological understanding to those who have experienced reproductive loss. The five contributors discuss their loss based on the stages of their experience: (1) Why? (2) Sorrow; (3) Rupture; (4) Comfort; and (5) Faith.
