Tag: birth defect

The power of words when an ultrasound reveals your baby has a “birth defect”

By Dave Andrusko Our last post of the day was made possible because a friend passed along a story that appears in the May edition of Christianity Today. Written by Kimi Harris, her lovely musings run under the headlined “When Our Ultrasound Revealed a Birth Defect, My Doctor Offered an Abortion: We’ve never regretted saying …

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Zika: still wrapped in mystery

By Michael Cook Editor’s note. The following is excerpted from a post at bioedge.org and is reprinted with permission. A week of confusing information about the Zika virus epidemic, which the World Health Organization has described as a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”. In a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, Slovenian clinicians …

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