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By Jessica A. Botelho, Staff Reporter, Rhode Island Catholic Editor's note. This story, which ran in September, was the second most read post of 2014. PROVIDENCE — Baby Angela smiles as a visitor tickles her feet. She wiggles and coos, moving her head from side...
By Dave Andrusko Back in September we reprinted a lovely story by Jessica A. Botelho, a staff reporter for the Rhode Island Catholic, “Baby Angela defies odds, turns 6 months old.” The “odds” that Angela defined were and are imposing: almost all babies born...
By Dave Andrusko What could possibly motivate someone—anyone?—to hack a Facebook account established for a baby who had just died a few hours after birth and insert sexually explicit pictures? Whomever that demented soul is, the site--Prayers for Shane--was...
By Wesley J. Smith Throughout my campaign on behalf of the human exceptionalism and the equal dignity of all people, utilitarian bioethicists and others have challenged me about anencephalic babies, that is, those born with parts of their brain missing. They...
By Lauren Enriquez I recently came across this touching Facebook group, Prayers for Shane. It was created by the mom and dad of baby Shane, a little boy who is due in October. Baby Shane has been diagnosed with anencephaly, a malformation of the baby’s skull...
By Jessica A. Botelho, Staff Reporter, The Rhode Island Catholic PROVIDENCE — The news for Sonia and Rony Morales was grim. At her 16-week ultrasound appointment five months ago, doctors informed Sonia that her baby has anencephaly, a neural tube defect in...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. The belief that parents and families will be damaged by...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. A woman who is carrying twin girls with a fatal foetal...
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Dr. Peter Saunders wrote a wonderful column on anencephaly and abortion which we are reprinting. (See “Defending the ‘indefensible’? Twenty reasons to think twice about aborting a baby with anencephaly.”) We ran this story in May of...
By Dave Andrusko It’s amazing sometimes how certain themes that are always in the background make their way into the foreground of your thinking. We’ve written a great deal recently about one of the principal dividing lines between pro- and anti-life forces: the...