Posted on Jun 18th, 2013 in
childbearing decisions,
ethics,
family size,
gamete donation,
genetic screening,
how many children to have,
IVF,
kids,
Lauren Sandler,
No Easy Choice,
One and Only,
only children,
parenthood,
PGD,
reproductive decision-making,
reproductive decisions,
reproductive technology,
women
Whether you choose to have one child or many, the children you end up with, and your willingness to embrace them no matter how they differ from the children you expected, will be the most important outcomes of your childbearing decisions.
Posted on May 28th, 2013 in
Christianity,
Conference on Medicine and Religion,
disabilities,
disability,
ethics,
fertility clinics,
God,
infertility,
IVF,
No Easy Choice,
OI,
parenthood,
PGD,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
vaccination,
vaccines,
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 May 2nd, 2013 in
adoption,
disabilities,
disability,
Down syndrome,
ethics,
family,
gender selection,
Jennifer Gilmore,
kids,
KJ Dell'Antonia,
Lauren Apfel,
Motherlode,
No Easy Choice,
OI,
pain,
parenthood,
PGD,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
suffering,
The Atlantic Sexes,
women
Jennifer Gilmore’s story is enough to scare anyone away from open adoption. (It also provides the best supporting evidence ever for my contention that “Why don’t you just adopt?” might be one of the stupidest questions known to huma...
Posted on Mar 11th, 2013 in
Andrew Solomon,
Christianity,
disabilities,
disability,
embodied faith,
ethics,
Far from the Tree,
genetic disorders,
kids,
OI,
pain,
parenthood,
PGD,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
suffering
In his vast and gripping book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, journalist Andrew Solomon discusses the two narratives that we use when we talk about life with disability in general, and/or with particular conditions, ...
Posted on Mar 7th, 2013 in
Christianity,
disabilities,
disability,
ethics,
eugenicist,
eugenics,
family,
God,
kids,
No Easy Choice,
OI,
osteogenesis imperfecta,
parenthood,
PGD,
Philip C. Burcham,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
suffering
A friend recently sent me an article written by an Australian man who has the same bone disorder I do (osteogenesis imperfecta, or OI). Writing for the Christian journal First Things, Philip C. Burcham tells a compelling story of his family’s OI hist...