A bill has been introduced in the House of Lords which seeks to end the abortion up to birth of disabled babies. Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 6. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of...
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Parents of disabled baby arrange their child’s death by starvation
By Sarah Terzo Charles L. Bosk, a writer and researcher, spent time in a pediatric hospital where doctors and nurses took care of disabled and/or premature babies. Sometimes, when disabled babies were born (despite the program’s efforts to detect and abort them), the...
”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...
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...
”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...
Women who keep their disabled babies face coercion, discrimination and disdain
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. Last Monday I attended the second oral evidence session of...