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August 2012

August 13, 2012

Imagining Your Child’s Life

What would it take for you to imagine life with a child with a disability?

July 2012

July 26, 2012

Resources for Women with a Prenatal Diagnosis of Down syndrome

As many of you know, I've been working on an ebook about prenatal testing for...

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...

July 12, 2012

Supreme Court Unexpectedly Upholds Regulatory Elimination of Down Syndrome

Is a new type of eugenics the unexpected result of the Affordable Care Act?

June 2012

June 10, 2012

Down syndrome, prenatal testing, and abortion–it’s complicated

Ross Douthat recently wrote a column about "Eugenics, Past and Future." He writes: given our...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

Down syndrome and abortion, Bristol Palin, and me (plus a book giveaway)

Some of you may know that Bristol Palin has recently joined the roster of Patheos...

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 07, 2012

The Ethics of Reproductive Choices: An Interview with Ellen Painter Dollar

This morning, I linked to my post for her.meneutics in which I reviewed Ellen Painter...

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...

March 2012

March 19, 2012

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Responses to Readers about Down syndrome and wrongful birth

I'm sure some of you have skimmed the comments over on the Huffington Post from...

March 02, 2012

Rick Santorum, prenatal testing, and choice

I'm working on an essay about recent developments in the national conversation about prenatal testing....

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...

October 2011

October 26, 2011

What Down Syn Mean?

It's a question William asked me a long time ago, and I've been thinking about...

October 21, 2011

A Smattering: Dragon Mother, Reading the Bible Makes You Liberal, and Sequenom Releases New Prenatal Test for Down Syndrome

By now, many of you have already read Notes From a Dragon Mom, Emily Rapp's beautiful...

October 04, 2011

New Post at NYTimes.com/Motherlode: Has Down Syndrome Hurt Us?

I have a new post on Motherlode, the parenting blog of the New York Times:...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

Two Stories of Down Syndrome

I've written before about the two stories circulating in our culture about Down syndrome. There's...

July 2011

July 29, 2011

Down Syndrome: What Story Will you Tell?

I had this moment when we were on vacation in Virginia Beach. I was looking...

July 26, 2011

Abortion and Eugenics

One of these days, I'll write more on this topic, but for now, I'd like...

June 2011

June 17, 2011

90% of Babies With Down Syndrome Aborted? Really?

Penny will "graduate" from pre-school today. She'll sing songs and receive a diploma and give...

May 2011

May 18, 2011

Is There Such a Thing as Wrongful Birth?

A few years back, I read an article in the New York Times Magazine about...

May 09, 2011

Sometimes It’s Good Not to Have a Choice (Or What I Didn’t Know Didn’t Hurt Me)

It sounds like good news. Researchers have developed a non-invasive test to detect Down syndrome...

September 2010

September 23, 2010

When the World Comments On Your Life

I’ve found myself in the center of a squall this past week. A squall of my...

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