Posted on May 28th, 2013 in
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Voices for Vaccines
Last fall I pointed blog readers to my colleague Rachel Stone’s post on vaccination as an expression of neighborly love. Today, Rachel has a follow-up post of sorts, commenting on a Mother Jones article indicating that poverty and other family is...
Posted on Mar 6th, 2013 in
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Fundamentally, it is simply a sad story, one that took place just a few miles from where I live, in the hospital where I gave birth to two of my own babies. As CNN reports, Connecticut resident Crystal Kelley agreed to carry a baby for a couple who had...
Posted on Feb 6th, 2013 in
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Think Christian
I have a post on Think Christian about how the Christian preoccupation with abortion has limited and skewed our ability to respond effectively to new reproductive technologies. From my post: Forty years after Roe v. Wade, abortion remains a dividing li...
Posted on Jan 24th, 2013 in
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What Every Woman Needs to Know About Prenatal Testing,
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My friend, colleague, and fellow Patheos blogger Amy Julia Becker has a new e-book titled What Every Woman Needs to Know about Prenatal Testing: Insights from a Mom Who Has Been There. My official endorsement of the book, which I include below, was hea...
Posted on Jan 18th, 2013 in
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A colleague told me yesterday that my post on “Why I am a Christian Democrat” was not only my most-read post ever, but was one of the most-read posts on the entire Patheos site in 2012. Wow. I’m pondering whether this post’s gra...