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January 2014

January 13, 2014

Why Does Our Culture Celebrate Down Syndrome?

Why, at a time when more and more fetuses with Down syndrome are aborted, are...

December 2013

December 02, 2013

Where Abortion and Human Rights Meet: an interview with Bob Fu about China’s one-child policy

"Forced abortion means it is never a 'choice' for women in China," says activist Bob...

November 2013

November 18, 2013

A Portrait of Abortion

"From the woman who procured an illegal and unsafe abortion in the late 1960s to...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Bridging the Abortion Divide, in conversation with Ellen Painter Dollar

How can pro-life and pro-choice people talk to each other when our political and media...

July 17, 2013

You’re Pregnant. How Do You Decide About Prenatal Testing?

" I had treated the decision to accept prenatal genetic testing as an inconsequential matter...

July 17, 2013

Happily Ever After, with Down Syndrome

A priest gives a woman who planned to abort her fetus with Down syndrome the...

May 2013

May 06, 2013

Are Pro-Lifers Hypocrites When it Comes to Down Syndrome?

Are pro-lifers hypocrites when it comes to babies with Down syndrome? The Atlantic implies that...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

Legislation or Education? The Politics of Abortion and Prenatal Testing (and my interview with Time.com)

In an interview with Bonnie Rochman of TIME, I discuss the problems with outlawing selective...

February 2013

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 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 08, 2013

The Good Stories About Down Syndrome

A story of inclusion and friendship, and a website for parents of kids with special...

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...

July 2012

July 12, 2012

What Does “Preventive” Care Mean? Further Thoughts on Prenatal Testing, Abortion, and Down syndrome

Prenatal testing was developed for the purpose of selective abortion, but has selective abortion been...

June 2012

June 05, 2012

Adoption was the Choice I Made by Anonymous

The other day my son was looking through a box in the closet that had old...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Adoption, Loss, and Life

A few weeks ago I wrote a post called Why Adoption Feels Harder than Abortion....

May 23, 2012

My Next Book? What Every Woman Needs to Know About Prenatal Testing

I’m working on a new e-book with Patheos right now. It’s tentatively titled “What Every...

May 16, 2012

Why Adoption Feels Harder than Abortion

I've held naive assumptions about both abortion and adoption in the past, and I've asked...

May 07, 2012

Reproductive Choices in a Broken World: Reflections on Ellen Painter Dollar’s No Easy Choice

My friend and fellow Patheos blogger Ellen Painter Dollar has written a book about reproductive...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Talking to Time Magazine about Prenatal Testing and Down Syndrome

I read a lot about prenatal testing, especially now that a company called Sequenom has developed...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

Concluding the Abortion Debate–Did You Change Your Mind?

A few final words, in the wake of the essays and discussion surrounding Christians who...

November 29, 2011

Questions for Ellen Painter Dollar on Being Pro-Choice Part Two

What restrictions would you put on reproductive choice? Fervent pro-choice advocates face a dilemma as...

November 29, 2011

Questions for Ellen Painter Dollar on Being Pro-Choice Part One

We have three more posts related to abortion--Ellen Painter Dollar's answers to my questions, which...

November 28, 2011

Questions for Karen Swallow Prior on Being Pro-Life

Two weeks ago, I posted two essays about abortion. In the first one, Karen Swallow...

November 21, 2011

Pro-Choice and Pro-Life or Somewhere In Between?

Much thanks to Ellen Painter Dollar and Karen Swallow Prior for their posts last week...

November 18, 2011

Why I Am Pro-Choice by Ellen Painter Dollar

I became interested in reproductive ethics for very personal reasons: Nine years ago, my husband...

November 17, 2011

Why I Am Pro-Life by Karen Swallow Prior

I am a Christian. And I am pro-life. These two labels don’t always or necessarily...

November 17, 2011

What Do You Think About Abortion?

Abortion has been legal across the United States for forty years now, and yet the...

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