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October 2014

October 02, 2014

No Easy Choices When It Comes to Genetics, Disability, and Reproductive Decisions

TIME Magazine online picked up my post from earlier this week on whether a parent might...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Can You Regret Having a Child Who Inherits Your Genetic Baggage?

But while I sometimes wish I could have spared my daughter her genetic fate, I’m...

July 2014

July 10, 2014

We’re Asking the Wrong Questions About Three-Parent Embryos

I’m not necessarily opposed to three-parent embryos. But I am opposed to sanctioning this technology,...

May 2014

May 06, 2014

Resemblances

“Look at those fingers! And her toes! So long and skinny…just like yours, Ellen.” I...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

Separate Sex from Procreation….& End Up in Dystopia?

We progressive Christians like to roll our eyes at the Roman Catholics for their official...

February 17, 2014

Why Do Parents Choose to Screen for Disabilities?

Imagine you are standing at an intersection with your child, waiting for a walk light...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

What We Can and Can’t Know About Our Babies Before They are Born

In using genetic screening to ensure that our baby would not inherit my painful bone...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

Have One Child or Many, Just Don’t Plan on Getting What You Expect

Whether you choose to have one child or many, the children you end up with,...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

How Poverty Affects Vaccination Rates

Last fall I pointed blog readers to my colleague Rachel Stone's post on vaccination as...

May 02, 2013

Parents-to-Be Have More Choices Than Ever, But We Can’t Choose Our Way Out of Pain

Jennifer Gilmore’s story is enough to scare anyone away from open adoption. (It also provides...

March 2013

March 11, 2013

When Conflicting Stories Are Both True: Illness, Identity, and the Tales We Tell of Living with Disability

In his vast and gripping book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search...

March 07, 2013

Bless Those Who Curse You (& Don’t Call Them Eugenicists, Moral Monsters, or Murderers)

A friend recently sent me an article written by an Australian man who has the...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

Abortion Isn’t the Only Reproductive Issue for Christians to Care About

I have a post on Think Christian about how the Christian preoccupation with abortion has...

January 2013

January 18, 2013

December 2012

December 07, 2012

“We Have to Consider the Quality of Our Children”: IVF, a Nobel Prize, and Cultural Confusion Around Reproductive Ethics

As the one-year anniversary of my book publication approaches in January, I’m devoting Fridays from...

November 2012

November 16, 2012

Which Story Do You Live By?

As the one-year anniversary of my book publication approaches in January, I'm devoting Fridays from...

November 15, 2012

Jewish Views on Reproductive Technology: Part 2

This is the second of two posts on Jewish perspectives on reproductive technology. I posted...

November 14, 2012

Jewish Views on Reproductive Technology: Part 1

Frequently, when discussing reproductive issues (abortion, repro tech, etc.) among Christians, Old Testament scriptures come...

November 13, 2012

When Parents Hope for Their Children to be Cured, Are We Really Wishing That They “Cease to Be”?

Messages about Andrew Solomon's new book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Why Allowing Parents to Choose Their Baby’s Gender is Wrong

When I write and speak about the ethical questions raised by reproductive technologies, I do...

August 2012

August 08, 2012

Does Prenatal Testing Equal Eugenics?

My colleague and friend Amy Julia Becker had an interesting conversation on her blog earlier...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

We Pushed Our Luck, and Got This Guy: Deciding to Have the Third Baby

(Editorial Note: I'm including an excerpt from my book below, so this is more an...

July 24, 2012

“No Easy Choice”: Driving People Nuts Since 2012

My favorite line in writer, reviewer, and all-around nice person LaVonne Neff's review of my...

July 18, 2012

Valuing Life, Preventing Suffering: A Central Tension in Genetic Screening for Disability

I'm attending and speaking at the 3rd annual Summer Institute on Theology and Disability, held...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

Another Q&A on “No Easy Choice”

Yesterday, Sandra Glahn (co-author of several books on infertility with Dr. William Cutrer) featured a...

April 2012

April 24, 2012

A Conversation About Reproductive Decisions and Faith

I was privileged to have a wonderful conversation several weeks ago with Martha Manikas-Foster, who...

March 2012

March 14, 2012

Three Things I Admire About Catholic Reproductive Ethics

As a lifelong Protestant, I'm always surprised to find myself defending Catholic positions on reproductive...

March 12, 2012

Basic Info for New Readers Who Read About Me in the Hartford Courant

Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green featured me and my book, No Easy Choice: A Story...

March 08, 2012

Why I Wrote a Wishy-Washy Book

In re-reading Kathleen Norris's sort-of-memoir Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life,...

March 07, 2012

Who Should Read My Book? And Why?

Yesterday, I had a great conversation at a local coffeehouse with Rick Green, a columnist...