By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. We had such a warm response to #NeverAlone that it made me think of other posts that remind us how little most parents know when they are told (pre- or post-natally] that their child has a disability. The following, inspired by a...
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An unflinchingly honest look at caring for a chronically ill child
By Dave Andrusko The two items are related but not the same. The first is a story that ran Wednesday on NPR celebrating the latest ‘advance’ in diagnosing our unborn children. “Blood Test Provides More Accurate Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome” is the...
Grassroots Eugenics
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This post appeared in the July 2004 issue of National Right to Life News. Unfortunately the ability to target real/potential/imaginary fetal anomalies has only grown more precise. And because this story is just as fresh (we have...
Wanting a retro-active abortion
By Dave Andrusko First, a tip of the hat to the pro-life blog JivinJehoshaphat for both a link to and a particularly astute insight into an essay that appeared at Salon.com. It would be difficult to come up with a harder hard case than that posed by Emily Rapp. Her...
France to consider whether offering pre-natal testing should be mandatory
Editor’s note. This first appeared at http://cause-of-our-joy.blogspot.com and is reprinted with permission. My friends at the Lejeune Foundation in France are calling for all those who oppose the eugenic abortion of babies with trisomy 21 and live in France to sign a...