{"id":398,"date":"2010-10-14T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/10\/news-round-up-down-syndrome-pregnancy-mothering-and-ivf.html"},"modified":"2010-10-14T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T13:32:40","slug":"news-round-up-down-syndrome-pregnancy-mothering-and-ivf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/10\/news-round-up-down-syndrome-pregnancy-mothering-and-ivf.html","title":{"rendered":"News Round Up: Down Syndrome, Pregnancy, Mothering, and IVF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Down Syndrome Awareness Month, so I&#8217;ve devoted more space than usual to all things Down Syndrome. There&#8217;s more to come. First, may I alert you to the premier of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/documentaries\/monica-and-david\/index.html\"> Monica and David<\/a>, a love story about two young people with Down syndrome who get married. It airs on HBO tonight at 8 pm. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/documentaries\/monica-and-david\/index.html#\/documentaries\/monica-and-david\/video\/trailer.html\/eNrjcmbOYM7XLMtMSc13zEvMqSzJTHbOzytJrShhLlTPz0mBCQYkpqf6JeamcjIysjGySSeWluQX5CRW2pYUlaayMQIAVKYXOA==\">trailer<\/a>, and various rave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2010\/10\/07\/monica-david-hbo-s-down-syndrome-documentary.html\">reviews<\/a>, I can only assume it is well worth watching. (Click <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/07\/down-syndrome-and-marriage.html\">here<\/a> to read what I wrote when I first saw the trailer.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;d also like to recommend a few articles:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/13\/a-hero-or-just-a-parent\/\">A Hero or Just a Parent?<\/a> is a post on Motherlode by a mother with a child with special needs. She reflects upon the role other people want to give her: hero, and the role she believes she actually lives: just a mom.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m hoping to write more about this story, but for now, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/12\/nyregion\/12bigcity.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=crisis%20pregnancy%20center&amp;st=cse\">The True Mission of &#8216;Crisis Pregnancy Centers&#8217;<\/a>&#8221; in the NY Times has gotten me thinking more because of the angle taken by the writer than the information contained in the piece itself.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks to my friend Ellen Painter Dollar for her helpful analysis of some of the moral ambiguities surrounding in vitro fertilization:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/choicesthatmatter.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/nobel-prize-for-ivf-and-weirdest-moral.html\">A Nobel Prize for IVF (And the Weirdest Moral Argument I&#8217;ve Heard in a Long Time<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And a recent NPR story about an unusual approach to serving adults with disabilities: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=130326842\">Finding Support for Children With Disabilities<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Also, in case you missed them before, her.meneutics has posted the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2010\/10\/top_10_posts_of_the_summer.html\">Top Ten Posts of the Summer<\/a>&#8221; which includes two articles by yours truly, one by the aforementioned Ellen Painter Dollar, and one by Margot Starbuck, another guest to this blog.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Happy reading and watching!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Down Syndrome Awareness Month, so I&#8217;ve devoted more space than usual to all things Down Syndrome. 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