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”Unspeakable Conversations”

  Editor’s note. William Peace’s brilliant “A Reply to "What Should We Do About Severely Impaired Babies?” invoked the late Harriet McBryde Johnson, a disability activist of the first order. In 2003  I wrote a three-part series about Ms. Johnson that I believe...

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Is abortion justified when a baby is disabled?

  By Paul Stark The New York Times recently published an article titled "My Abortion, at 23 Weeks." The author explains that she was pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl, but that the boy was diagnosed with a herniated diaphragm. He would require surgery and...

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”Unspeakable Conversations”

Editor’s note. Building on the insights of Amy Hasbrouck found at “The Thrill” we’re running what was a three-part series in 2003 about the late Harriet McBryde Johnson who is a key actor in Hasbrouck’s essay. It’s not often that articles which pretty much stop me in...

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