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Motherhood is in a political spotlight in the US, but the mums are shaking it off
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MomCo is a Christian-focused nonprofit for mothers with 150,000 American members.
PHOTO: ZACK WITTMAN/NYTIMES
Emma Goldberg
ORLANDO – The swimming pool at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, cerulean and shaped somewhat like a poodle, was not an obvious place for a baptism.
Yet on Sept 27, before the workshops on health and Bible basics, before the DJ started spinning Disney tracks, a smattering of the women of Momcon put on bathing suits and went outside to be symbolically purified.
