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March 2013

March 19, 2013

Life with Down Syndrome in Zambia

An interview with a mother of a child with Down syndrome in Zambia in honor...

March 18, 2013

Living in Poland with Down Syndrome, the Story of an Artist

The beauty of an artist with Down syndrome, a guest post by Joanna Puciata, in...

March 13, 2013

Missing Out on Beautiful: A Reflection on Down Syndrome, Life, and Love

How can I put into words the beauty I see when I look at my...

March 12, 2013

What Are You Teaching Your Children About Food? A Guest Post from Rachel Marie Stone

"I felt I was receiving conflicting messages: the first being that my baby’s well-being was...

March 11, 2013

Worth Reading: Boys and Dolls, Down Syndrome, and Who Is the Mom?

A few posts and articles from the past few weeks that are worth passing along:...

March 06, 2013

What Does Food Have to do with Prenatal Testing?

The first review of my ebook (plus a giveaway), What Every Woman Needs to Know...

March 04, 2013

We’re Moving

What's happening on my blog for the month of March: guest posts, World Down syndrome...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Blessed Imperfection: A Girl Learns to Jump and Her Mother, To Take Her First Steps by Kristina Robb Dover

"Catholic theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar has said “perfection consists in fullness of [life’s] journey;”...

February 21, 2013

Asking the Wrong Questions About Down Syndrome?

I wrote an article for the Atlantic about the history of prenatal testing and abortion...

February 20, 2013

My Kids Keep Teaching Me How to Pray

"I have so much in my head. I need to pray a lot."

February 19, 2013

How Prenatal Testing Helped my Family by Mona Patel

Mona Patel writes about how a prenatal diagnosis helped her diverse family (she is from...

February 15, 2013

What We Think Today: Down Syndrome, Prenatal Testing, and the Questions We Face by George Estreich

George Estreich reflects upon two different Today Show stories: "In one, we’re supposed to feel...

February 14, 2013

What We Do Instead of Celebrating Valentine’s Day

"I have started to believe that falling in love again and again takes a lot...

February 13, 2013

Telling Penny About When She Was Born, and an Interview with Family Life

What I wish I could have said to Penny about how I felt after I...

February 07, 2013

I Tested and I Terminated and I Do Not Regret by Anonymous

One mother's story of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome that led her to choose...

February 06, 2013

Prenatal Testing and Abortion–Is it Possible to Be Biased but not Judgmental?

I released an ebook (What Every Woman Needs to Know About Prenatal Testing) two weeks...

February 05, 2013

Doctors Need to Understand Their Patients When It Comes to Prenatal Testing by Nancy Iannone

When a patient says she doesn't want to terminate her pregnancy, doctors need to stop...

February 04, 2013

If You are Pro-Life, Should You Pursue Prenatal Testing?

Every pregnant woman will be offered prenatal testing for some genetic conditions. What should you...

February 01, 2013

Worth Reading: on Prenatal Testing and the Meaning of Life and what they have to do with each other

Two articles worth reading. One, a Wired Magazine take on prenatal testing: This Simple Blood...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

I Regretted My Amnio by Meriah Nichols

One mother's description of discovering who her daughter really is...

January 29, 2013

Why I Wish I Had Chosen Prenatal Testing by Patti Rice

One pro-life mother reflects on why she wishes she had known prenatally that her daughter...

January 28, 2013

Imagining Down Syndrome

The prospect of disability often cuts off the possibilities of imagining a good life, not...

January 25, 2013

Why Women Need Pre Prenatal Counseling

"every woman or couple, no matter their risk level, will face decisions about prenatal testing...

January 24, 2013

A Good and Perfect Gift Available for FREE Today Only!

For one day only, A Good and Perfect Gift is free for Kindle, Nook, or...

January 23, 2013

What do Down Syndrome, Abortion, and Baby Girls Have to do with One Another?

"Statistics also suggest that at least 50% of all fetuses with Down syndrome in the...

January 22, 2013

Why Should You Care About Prenatal Testing?

What people are saying about my new ebook about prenatal testing, and why you should...

January 21, 2013

Ebook and Free Book and a New Website to Boot

Three fun things to announce: I am delighted to announce the publication of my long-awaited...

January 15, 2013

Why I Don’t Think Random Acts of Kindness are all that Great

Solitary random acts of kindness don't ask nearly enough of us.

January 14, 2013

When Turning Four Means a Death Sentence: Russia, Adoption, and Down syndrome

Our friends are trying to adopt a boy with Down syndrome from Russia, but he...

January 10, 2013

Mommy, What Does Forgive Mean?

How fighting with my son and a murder case in Florida helped me understand more...

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