{"id":118,"date":"2010-01-13T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/01\/faith-and-choice.html"},"modified":"2010-01-13T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:25:00","slug":"faith-and-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/01\/faith-and-choice.html","title":{"rendered":"Faith and Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new friend Ellen Dollar is looking for people to interview for her new book about faith and reproductive choices. Here&#8217;s what she has to say about it:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px\">My forthcoming book, <i>No Best Choice: A Christian Perspective on Disability, Genetics and Parenthood in the Age of Advanced Reproduction<\/i><span style=\"font-style: normal\"> (tentative title\u2014to be published by Westminster John Knox Press in 2011)<\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"color: black;font-style: normal\">is narrative nonfiction exploring a Christian response to genetic and reproductive technologies, especially in vitro fertilization (IVF) and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). The book is designed for a wide audience of readers with an interest in how Christian faith influences decisions about whether or not to use these technologies, including prospective parents, pastors and genetic counselors.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px\">To read more, and to contact Ellen if you are willing to help, click <a href=\"http:\/\/choicesthatmatter.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/im-interested-in-hearing-from-people.html\">here<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new friend Ellen Dollar is looking for people to interview for her new book about faith and reproductive choices. Here&#8217;s what she has to say about it: My forthcoming book, No Best Choice: A Christian Perspective on Disability, Genetics and Parenthood in the Age of Advanced Reproduction (tentative title\u2014to be published by Westminster John&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-syndrome"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Faith and Choice - Thin Places<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/01\/faith-and-choice.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Faith and Choice - Thin Places\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My new friend Ellen Dollar is looking for people to interview for her new book about faith and reproductive choices. 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