Charlie Morgan, a 47-year-old career soldier in the late stages of metastatic breast cancer, says she hopes to live long enough to see the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) overturned, so that her wife will receive the benefits that a widow in a hetero couple would receive. "I'm praying that they take it up soon," Morgan told the Washington Post in a phone interview from her home in New Durham, NH "It's my motivation for staying alive. I really need to be alive when they actually do overturn DOMA, otherwise Karen is not guaranteed anything." Read the rest here.
Last wish of married lesbian soldier dying of breast cancer: "Let DOMA die before I do"
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