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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...

July 2013

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...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

A Good and Perfect Gift on Audible (and Other Fun News)

For those of you who prefer listening to books to reading them (or for your...

June 14, 2013

What Prenatal Testing Has to Do with the Church (and Other Religious Communities)

"Even though I was an active member of our local church, it hadn’t crossed my...

June 06, 2013

Questions about Disabilities, Prenatal Testing, the Church, and More

An interview with Jonathan Merritt's blog on Faith and Culture at Religion News Service.

May 2013

May 31, 2013

The Unfinished Child, a Story of Down Syndrome, Love, and Choice (and a Book Giveaway) Part Two

Part two of Theresa Shea's interview about her new novel, The Unfinished Child. She talks...

May 30, 2013

The Unfinished Child, a Story of Down Syndrome, Love, and Choice (and a Book Giveaway)

Novelist Theresa Shea discusses her book The Unfinished Child, a story about two families struggling...

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...

April 2013

April 11, 2013

Four Myths About Prenatal Testing

My guest post for Ellen Seidman's parents.com blog on four myths surrounding prenatal testing.

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...

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...

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 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 12, 2013

Why Parent-to-Parent Support Matters with a Prenatal Diagnosis by Amy Geoffroy

One mother's experience of prenatal testing, and how she supports women now

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...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

I Regretted My Amnio by Meriah Nichols

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

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 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 03, 2013

Summarizing 2012, or Not…

Some lists of good reads from the past year, and my Q Talk on prenatal...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Is Down Syndrome Abnormal?

I don’t want to change the words, but rather tell a story that might contribute...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

What the Marketing of Prenatal Tests Tells us About the Tests Themselves…

...the likely effect of tests likeMaterniT21 is to depopulate the Buddy Walks of the future....

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