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2013-03-12T11:11:09-04:00

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

Last updated on: March 12, 2013 at 11:11 am By Amy Julia Becker

"I felt I was receiving conflicting messages: the first being that my baby’s well-being was entirely dependent upon my eating and exercise; the second, that my body was mine, and that I should take measures to keep it that way, or at least, to conceal its pregnancy-inflicted flaws." Read more

2013-03-11T13:20:01-04:00

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

Last updated on: March 11, 2013 at 1:20 pm By Amy Julia Becker

A few posts and articles from the past few weeks that are worth passing along: God Made Boys to Play with Dolls by Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeinera, Caryn offers a wonderful defense of boys playing with dolls and links it to the God who loves us as a father. Another great piece by George Estreich on societal perceptions of Down syndrome: Selling the Story: Fetal Gene Testing, Down syndrome and the Today Show And a story on CNN about a surrogate... Read more

2013-03-07T12:57:03-05:00

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What Does Food Have to do with Prenatal Testing?

Last updated on: March 7, 2013 at 12:57 pm By Amy Julia Becker

The first review of my ebook (plus a giveaway), What Every Woman Needs to Know About Prenatal Testing Read more

2013-03-03T10:21:46-05:00

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We’re Moving

Last updated on: March 3, 2013 at 10:21 am By Amy Julia Becker

What's happening on my blog for the month of March: guest posts, World Down syndrome Day, interviews, and a ministry of absence. Read more

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2013-03-01T20:02:33-05:00

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Better Prenatal Testing Means More Abortion by Mark Leach

Last updated on: March 1, 2013 at 8:02 pm By Amy Julia Becker

Lower termination rates still mean more Down syndrome abortions. A guest post by Mark Leach in response to my article in The Atlantic last week. Read more

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2013-02-27T11:15:36-05:00

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

Last updated on: February 27, 2013 at 11:15 am By Amy Julia Becker

"Catholic theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar has said “perfection consists in fullness of [life’s] journey;” and for this reason, none of us must ever think we have “arrived.” Each day with Sam reminds me I have a long way to go in becoming who God wants me to be." A guest post from Kristina Robb Dover Read more

2013-02-25T10:19:39-05:00

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Worth Reading: on Pain, Junk Food, Prison, TV, and Gender Equality

Last updated on: February 25, 2013 at 10:19 am By Amy Julia Becker

So during one of those restless nights last week in which I wish I had been praying (see last week’s post, My Kids Keep Teaching Me How to Pray) but was actually reading stuff on my phone, I came across a number of articles you might like: On love and grace and pain from poet Christian Wiman: Mortify Our Wolves On why junk food is so addictive: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food On the impact of too-long prison... Read more

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2013-02-21T13:53:51-05:00

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Asking the Wrong Questions About Down Syndrome?

Last updated on: February 21, 2013 at 1:53 pm By Amy Julia Becker

I wrote an article for the Atlantic about the history of prenatal testing and abortion and what that history means for us today. Read more

2013-02-20T17:23:37-05:00

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My Kids Keep Teaching Me How to Pray

Last updated on: February 20, 2013 at 5:23 pm By Amy Julia Becker

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

2013-02-19T11:23:10-05:00

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How Prenatal Testing Helped my Family by Mona Patel

Last updated on: February 19, 2013 at 11:23 am By Amy Julia Becker

Mona Patel writes about how a prenatal diagnosis helped her diverse family (she is from India, her husband from the United States) prepare to welcome their youngest son, who has Down syndrome. Read more

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