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OPINIÓN: No debemos temerle al sÃndrome de Down http://t.co/3YRfPluotm pic.twitter.com/zKsFTjcSgO — CNN en Español (@CNNEE) February 19, 2015 I have a new piece up at CNN (here’s the English language version. I’ve just never, to my knowledge, been translated before, so sharing this!). I try to make some big points, but at the core there’s …
Last week I wrote about a new bill in Indiana that forbids disability-selection and sex-selection abortion. The latter almost never happens. The former happens all too often. The combination is an attempt to do two things: 1) split the pro-choice and disability rights movement and 2) gain support for abortion restrictions by nominally pro-choice individuals …
I have a new piece up at Reproductive Health Reality Check. It continues to explore the themes of how we generate a new rhetoric for people who are pro-choice, pro-information, and anti-eugenics. It takes as its lede a story about a woman who wishes she had aborted her child with Down syndrome, born these 47 …
I often say that the world of prenatal testing for Down syndrome is a test run for the future of human procreation, and that it’s a test we are generally failing. It seems to me that as our access to pre-natal information gets better and better, cheaper and cheaper, more and more accurate, we slide …
Get it? It’s a roundup! Today is Sunday. I am not watching the NFL. For me, being a football fan was a major part of my identity, one that intensified with the advent of Fantasy Football. As the concussion scandal intensified, I began to scale back my engagement with the game. First quitting fantasy, then …
I’ve been busy researching several new pieces this week so the blogging has been a bit light. That’s likely to continue next week as well. Bear with me! Good stuff is coming. The most important piece I wrote this week was about the efforts of a radical right-wing group to use Down syndrome prenatal testing …
Nancy McCrea Iannone argues that the new Louisiana law on pre-natal testing inserts abortion politics into what had been a non-partisan movement by forbidding health-care providers to present termination as a neutral or acceptable choice. Comments from David Perry on this post can be found here. Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Information: Proceed with Caution by Nancy McCrea Iannone. …