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 7th, 2013 in
abortion,
Christianity,
ethics,
family,
God,
parenthood,
poverty,
progressive Christian position on abortion,
progressive Christianity,
Rachel Held Evans,
reproductive technology,
women
Blogger/author Rachel Held Evans wrote an excellent post last week titled Why Progressive Christians Should Care About Abortion. She traced her own history, from embracing an evangelical pro-life stance to her gradual understanding of abortion’s ...
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 12th, 2013 in
abortion,
disabilities,
disability,
ethics,
family,
identity narrative of disability,
illness narrative of disability,
Joshua Miele,
kids,
OI,
pain,
parenthood,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
suffering,
writing
Last week’s New York Times featured a story about Joshua Miele, who at the age of four in 1973, answered the door of his Brooklyn home to a man he recognized as a neighbor. The man, for no reason other than his disordered thinking due to mental i...