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This morning I was interviewed on WNYC’s “The Takeaway,” a Public Radio International Program. To listen to the clip, click here. The interview discusses my own views and experience of prenatal testing with all three pregnancies, and it also includes a discussion with sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman, who provides an explanation for why prenatal testing…

I mentioned earlier this week that I had an article at Motherlode, the Parenting blog of the New York Times: Deciding Not to Screen for Down Syndrome. Since the article was posted on Tuesday evening, there have been 133 comments that range from supportive of our decisions, opposed to them, and everything in between. If…

My mother gardens. She has gorgeous flower beds. Everywhere. Zinnias and lilies and hostas and petunias and daffodils and flowers whose names I’ve never learned. When I was little, our backyard had more sunlight than it does now, so she also grew green beans and tomatoes and squash and zucchini and lettuce and herbs. I…

When I was little, I thought being a Christian meant going to church with my family. If pressed, I probably would have added some thoughts about the 10 Commandments and being nice, and I probably would have mentioned Jesus.   Then, when I was fifteen, I had my first experience with the Holy Spirit. I…
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