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 the best” — …
Continue reading "Attempt to end abortion discrimination against disabled babies"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 parents didn’t want them. Bosk wrote about a couple that chose not …
Continue reading "Parents of disabled baby arrange their child’s death by starvation"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 merits re-printing. It’s not often that articles which pretty much stop me …
Continue reading "”Unspeakable Conversations”"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 life support for a period after birth. The …
Continue reading "Is abortion justified when a baby is disabled?"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 my tracks. Read too much, talked to too …
Continue reading "”Unspeakable Conversations”"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 the Parliamentary ‘Inquiry into Abortion on the Grounds of Disability’ (more background …
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